and the congress, saying we would need only advisers, even though his only military experts told him south vietnam would be lost without an immediate commitment of american combat units. >> we still seek no wider war. >> i now saw johnson was continuing a pattern of presidential lying. each president wanted to avoid the stigma of losing indochina on their watch. it wasn't that we were on the wrong side, we were the wrong side. it was a crime carried out from the star by fourpresidents. and now a fifth president was doing the same with no end in sight. the hundreds of thousands we were killing was unjustified homicide. and i couldn't see the difference between that and murder. murder had to be stopped.