 NSA report confirms US faked attack to escalate Vietnam war |
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| NSA report confirms US faked attack to escalate Vietnam war |
 Jan 8 2008, 03:45 PM
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Jan 8 2008, 04:04 PM
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I'm fairly sure this is old news. Everyone knows that what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin was played up to be more than it really was.
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Jan 8 2008, 04:05 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
QUOTE In 1995 the retired General Vo Nguyen Giap confirmed nothing ever happened on August 4 -- although he admitted that the August 2 attack was real. He believed U.S. ships were trying to provoke an attack so President Johnson would have a pretext for greater U.S. involvement. It seems to me the first attack did happen, and that the question is about who fired first. |
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Jan 8 2008, 04:12 PM
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guys guess what?
Anna Nicole died. |
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Jan 8 2008, 04:40 PM
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well the majority of people don't believe the gulf of tonkin was a faked, so i had to post this and gloat in fact that i was right all along
most people just think "lawdy lawdy the government would NEVER fake an attack to pull us into a war!111!1!" |
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Jan 8 2008, 04:44 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
It doesn't look like it was faked though, it just looks like we probably attacked them first.
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Jan 8 2008, 04:55 PM
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dude, did you not read the article?
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Jan 8 2008, 05:07 PM
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Dude, yes. All 5 sentences that pertained to the tonkin attack. I just wonder how a "review of the classified signals intelligence" proves something didn't happen. Especially when the enemy general confirms there was an attack on Aug 2nd.
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Jan 8 2008, 05:08 PM
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Damn Democrats...
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Jan 9 2008, 11:08 AM
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QUOTE (impala454 @ Jan 8 2008, 05:07 PM)  Dude, yes. All 5 sentences that pertained to the tonkin attack. I just wonder how a "review of the classified signals intelligence" proves something didn't happen. Especially when the enemy general confirms there was an attack on Aug 2nd. I can't believe I'm about to type this... I agree with impala. We've pretty much known for a long time that we fired first at the Vietnamese. From what I've read in the article, there's not really much evidence that it was "faked." It was probably just a mistake on our part. -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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