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Then there were the lies of President John Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk when they told the public the United States was not responsible for the 1961 invasion of Cuba, although in fact the invasion had been organized by the CIA.

The escalation of the war in Vietnam started with a set of lies – I n August 1964 – about incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin.  The United States announced two “unprovoked” attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese boats.  One of them almost certainly did not take place.  The other was undoubtedly provoked by the proximity (ten miles) of the destroyer to the Vietnamese coast and by a series of CIA-organized raids on the coast.

The lies then multiplied.  One of them was President Johnson’s statement that the U.S. Air Force was only bombing “military targets.”  Another was a deception by President Richard Nixon; he concealed from the American public the 1969-1970 massive bombing of Cambodia, a country which we were supposed to be at peace.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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