Vietnam: American Holocaust - Tonkin Incident

President Johnson used an alleged attack by North Vietnamese gun boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin to greatly escalate the American War in Vietnam, but the attack never happened.

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[MalteseFalcon786]

To believe that North Vietnamese gunboats would have taken on the U.S Navy without provocation is to give the leaders in Hanoi too little credit for their sense of self preservation.

[clayclai]

Actually they were provocing the hell out of them with CIA organized raids against NVA coastal installations that the Maddox was supporting. That's why they expected an attack. But those sly communists didn't rise to the bait. No problem! LBJ & the Big Mac just declared an attack anyway.

And you thought the arrest wouldn't stick because you weren't holding when you were busted?

[SpangledStars]

we have a history of lying to go to war with a third world country. see how great government is???

[shillyshallyz]

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"IF CERTAINS ACTS AND VIOLATIONS OF TREATIES ARE CRIMES, THEY ARE CRIMES WHETHER THE UNITED STATES DOES THEM OR WHETHER GERMANY DOES THEM. WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO LAY DOWN A RULE OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT AGAINST OTHERS WHICH WE WOULD NOT BE WILLING TO HAVE INVOKED AGAINST US."

— Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief Prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

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[bangmeister]

9/11 anyone?

[390bullitt1968]

@lucirz - 9--11 was the same as Gulf of Tonkin. Regardless of who did it, CIA or Mossad the result was achieved, Massive war on muslim lands with no basis and no evidence of hostile actions on the part of these nations.

[390bullitt1968]

Senator Morse is a hero and true American Patriot. God Bless him.

[390bullitt1968]

@clayclai - Good Post. JFK tried to stop this conflict. That was part of the reason he was taken out.

[kakompo]

Well said Senator Wayne Morse. 

[lucirz]

this is sad, just a bunch of greedy and elitist suits behind office making up lies to make more money. in the meanwhile, the american public and citizens of other countries are the ones feeling the pain.

fuck these politicians

[TheJd5950]

@joey22306 lol jus putting two and two together, shit was fishey fron the star, they said bin ladden and his goons brought down the towers< then why did we give him a two month head start before we moved ne troops to afganistan and still fighting a war in iraq

[joey22306]

9/11 was probably no different.

[majordbag2]

Who doesn't know that the Tonkin incident was false other the idiot and/or extreme rightwing delusional douchebags.

[cancanbiker]

You see, opium war. Not a communism war.

Afghanistan, opium war. Not a terrorism war.

"ism" wars do NOT exist.