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Fake Battle, Real War
Posted on 4/20/19 at 4:47 am
Posted on 4/20/19 at 4:47 am
Conspiracy: The Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964, was faked to provoke American support for the Vietnam War.
The truth: By the time news reached American ears, the facts surrounding the North Vietnamese attack on the American Naval ship Maddox were already fuzzy.
Declassified intelligence documents have since revealed that the Maddox had provided support for South Vietnamese attacks on a nearby island and that the North Vietnamese were responding in kind, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.
The event "opened the floodgates for direct American military involvement in Vietnam."
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Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:22 am to pioneerbasketball
It's the same old story. USS Maine we aren't sure got blown up by the Spanish but we went to war regardless. With the gulf war, while sadam did some awful things, the incubator baby story was a hoax. And of course WMDs in Iraq in the 00s
We go to war prematurely sometimes. Worst part is good men die that may not have needed to
We go to war prematurely sometimes. Worst part is good men die that may not have needed to
This post was edited on 4/20/19 at 11:25 am
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:42 am to thatguy45
Good, young men*
Decided by dated, old fricks.
Decided by dated, old fricks.
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