War of Vietnam - The Gulf of Tonkin incident

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was an alleged pair of attacks by naval forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (commonly referred to as North Vietnam) against two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. The attacks were alleged to have occurred on 2 August and 4 August 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Later research, including a report released in 2005 by the National Security Agency, indicated that the second attack most likely did not occur, but also attempted to dispel the long-standing assumption that members of the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson had knowingly lied about the nature of the incident.[1]

The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Southeast Asia Resolution (better known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution), which granted Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for escalating American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict.

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[50poiuyt]

The US goverment always lied in the Vietnam war,the bigest lie was "Gulf of Tonkin incident ".

[chucknchar]

I'm angry, I'm a Vietnam vet and they killed my brothers and sisters for a lie! Where are the Swift boat vets? The fucking phonies,

[subedei30]

@asprun Dont think people think the Vietnam War was a lie but the reasons and information about what was actually happening there was a lie for instance the CIA had been secretly sending South Vietnamese teams on sabotage missions into the north. In the first half of 1964 South Vietnamese gunboats raided North Vietnam’s coast and Johnson approved covert American operations. Hardly open about their own operations let alone Vietnamese

[Paperism1ne]

I thought Jim Morrisons father ( Singer From the Doors ) initiated the first alarm??

[hunterofthephoenix]

I think America has the set the whole thing up?

I doubt there even was an attack on the boat, it was just another cheap reason to start another war. Those Americans think they are keepers of the peace, but they're always the guys who meddle into the world and start a war if the other side doesn't agree with them.

They are like the Sith thinking they are doing things right, let's only hope they are still some jedi left.

[asprun]

@MFBueno63

The Vietnam war was not a LIE, the US was trying to contain communism. Agree or disagree, but it was not a LIE.

[asprun]

After the attack on Pearl Harbor the NAVY would shoot at dolphins, it was the same here, the first attack made them "jumpy".

[theamazingethann]

thousands of americans died 4 nothing that is how valueable u r 2 ur government it worked and still is working but now focused on muslim countrys wow

[moh1612]

@KEVRO You are so fucking right on the money with that talk. Most Americans never wake up, that's why i suggest owning a base ball bat and fucking bat them on the noggin. We need to do all we can to awaken the fucking sheeple of all sheeps

[KEVRO]

@moh1612

lol they'll recognize that when they wake up and destroy the people running this country.

[chucknchar]

@moh1612 Yes, don't you get the feeling the media is a partner in selling wars, like in Iraq, the bodies of our soldiers were forbidden to be shown and to get the real scoop the BBC and the rest of the world reported and were aware of the collateral damage done by us as ordered by military brass

[moh1612]

@chucknchar Americans aren't the only breed on this fucking earth. Iraqi's, Vietnamese, Koreans, they are all human beings too. Let's not make the subject only about American maimes/deaths but about the other side's suffering because of false flag events like this.

I always hear that Americans just feel grievance on their behalf when in actual fact it's the other side that has far more deaths...just vanity really that's all it is.