i enlisted in the u.s. army during the vietnam conflict because i believed the war was just and it was the duty of male citizens of democracies to perform military service in wartime.

thirty-five years later, white house tape recordings revealed that by 1967 democratic president lyndon johnson knew the war was lost, yet kept sending tens of thousands of american soldiers to their deaths because he had no better plan and feared the domestic political consequences of a pullout. johnson and robert mcnamara, his secretary of defence, persistently lied to and deceived americans... (eric margolis)

same thing happen with war against terror and bush?

click : war on terror masks bush's grand strategy