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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408) was a joint resolution of the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to two alleged min...
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the event that made the United States declare war against North Vietnam. In 1964, an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin was hit by a torpedo by North Vietnamese forces. Two days later, the ship reported ...
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McNamara wasted little time in raising a question that clearly had nagged him for decades. "To this day I don't know what happened on August 2 and August 4, 1964, in the Tonkin Gulf," he said to Giap. "I think we may have mad...
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It is believed that the USS Maddox, while patroling the waters of the Tonkin Bay on an intelligence gathering mission, were attacked by North Vietnamese naval forces. The North Vietnamese, believing that the Americans were part of an attack...
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The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" against a U.S. destroyer on "routine patrol" in the Tonkin Gulf on Aug. 2 — and that North Vietnamese PT boats followed up ... But Johnson ordered U.S. bombers to "retaliate" for a North Vietnamese torpedo attack that never happened.
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President Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ... Here is what happened, taken directly from Guenter Lewy's authoritative history of the war, America in Vietnam. South Vietnam was then conducting raids on the North Vietnamese coast.
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www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/Mistakes/Tonkin.html
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Another war, another set of faulty intelligence findings behind it. ... "The parallels between the faulty intelligence on Tonkin Gulf and the manipulated intelligence used to justify the Iraq war make it all the more worthwhile to re-examine the events of August 1964 in light of new evidence," researcher John Prados said.
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www.drudge.com/news/76048/gulf-tonkin-never-happened
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Newly declassified documents have provided more evidence the Johnson administration faked the Gulf of Tonkin incident to escalate the Vietnam War. The alleged 1964 attack on U.S. warships by North Vietnamese was used as a ... But a report from the National Security Agency concludes “no attack happened that night.”...
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www.democracynow.org/2008/1/10/headlines
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PRESIDENT Johnson admitted in a secret tape recording that the incident he used to win congressional approval for the Vietnam war probably never happened, according to a book published yesterday. ... In 1964, days after an alleged North Vietnamese attack on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress approved a...
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www.freemasonrywatch.org/tonkin_faked.html
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