The big revelation in the Pentagon Papers was that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a fabrication to justify the escalation of the Vietnam War. O'Neill is saying that the war on Iraq was planned well in advance of the fabricated stories of WMDs that the chimp used to justify his illegal invasion of Iraq. Very similar deceptions.
By the way, Lyndon Johnson was President during the time of the alleged Gulf of Tonkin incident, although Nixon continued the escalation of the war.
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