Over the weekend, Reps. David Bonior (D-Michigan) and Jim McDermott (D-Washington) gave an interview from Baghdad in which the duo said that the United States should take Saddam Hussein at his word, but warned that the president might try to deceive the American people. As an example, McDermott cited the Gulf of Tonking incident (emphasis added),
I believe that sometimes they [the Bush Administration] give out misinformation. Lyndon Johnson did it in the Vietnam War. Both David and I were in that war, and there was no Gulf of Tonkin incident. The President lied to the Congress about how many people he was going to put into Vietnam, or whether he was in Laos, or whether he was in Cambodia.
The major problem here — as this weblogger points out — is that McDermott never served in Vietnam. McDermott’s resume lists military service from 1968-1970, but as a psychiatrist at a military base in California.
I guess it depends on the meaning of “in.”