“Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish!”
– U.S. President Lyndon Johnson commenting on the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Fifty years ago yesterday, on August 7, 1964, Congress passed the now infamous Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which led to a massive escalation of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Without a formal declaration of war, the resolution permitted President Johnson to take “all necessary measures” to support South Vietnam, including armed forces. This resulted in 58,000 dead Americans and well over a million dead Vietnamese, both civilians and military personnel.
The resolution was passed based on President Johnson’s claim that the destroyer USS Maddox had been attacked for the second time in one week. While the Maddox did indeed suffer from a torpedo attack on August 2, 1964 after a raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats, the second attack was a pure fabrication. Furthermore, Johnson never discussed the background on the initial incident to Congress. Had Congress actually knew what happened it may have prevented this resolution from passing, thus saving millions of lives. Here’s a quick summary from History.com:
On August 2, shortly after a clandestine raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats, the U.S. destroyer Maddox (conducting electronic espionage nearby) was fired on by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Two days later, in the same area, the Maddox and another destroyer reported that they were again under attack. Although these reports now appear to have been mistaken, Johnson proceeded quickly to authorize retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam. The next day he gathered congressional leaders and, without divulging the circumstances that might have helped provoke the torpedo attack, accused the North Vietnamese of “open aggression on the high seas.” He then submitted to the Senate a resolution that authorized him to take “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.” The resolution was quickly approved by Congress; only Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against it. Later, when more information about the Tonkin incident became available, many concluded that Johnson and his advisers had misled Congress into supporting the expansion of the war.
Even worse, within days of the attack, Johnson reportedly told State Department official George Ball that “Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish! So he clearly knew he was escalating a war based on a fabrication.
Things clearly haven’t changed much when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. After all, how did Barack Obama celebrate the 50th anniversary? By bombing Iraq again of course.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Western governments meddling in eastern affairs have resulted in creating hell on earth…something two world wars and hundred of small proxy wars eternally attest to.and still the stupid marches on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719991/Horrific-new-photographs-ISIS-atrocities-prompted-Obama-act.html
sheesh…another turd polisher takes point.
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Flash the ragheads were warring tribes long before the west set foot there.
The ancient Muslim hatreds tearing apart the Middle East: How 1,400-year-old feud between Shia and Sunni sects flared into life with the fall of dictators like Gaddafi and Saddam… and now threatens to swallow all of Iraq
At the heart of the terrifying meltdown in Iraq is the centuries-old hatred between two Muslim ideologies: Sunni and Shia.
The deadly power struggle between these two rival versions of the same faith has flared into life as Sunnis in the extremist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) advance on Baghdad, where flailing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki – who is Shia – begged his parliament to declare a state of emergency.
It is a battle being watched with trepidation throughout the Middle East, where the escalation of the traditional Sunni/Shia conflict threatens governments and national borders.
Already, ISIS has effectively established its own nation state – or Islamic caliphate – which spreads across the north of Syria and Iraq, taking no heed of the border between the countries.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656734/Ancient-hatreds-tearing-apart-Middle-East-How-1-400-year-old-feud-Shia-Sunni-Muslims-flared-life-fall-dictators-like-Gaddafi-Saddam-threatens-swallow-Iraq.html#ixzz39tdVayKp
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Islam … I’ve been told it’s The Religion of Peace
How mooslims treat Christians (All pics are recent.)
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Sensetti . warring tribes versus warrign states ..big difference.
Read this for a vivid understanding of just who introduced whom to total barbarianism…hint, there was nothing holy about the war on stripping the Levant its wealth and family dynasties.The west pretty much taught the east everything they know about waging total war.
http://books.google.com/books?id=_fL3jwjhyQ4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+crusades+the+authoritative&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0B3mU9nFEYm3yAS8pIHoCQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20crusades%20the%20authoritative&f=false
As much as I despise da Zionist Joofuks running Israel (and I do, greatly), that hatred is eclipsed ten-fold when it comes to mooslims.
Sure, I am disgusted that da Joos have killed over a thousand Palestinians in Gaza (the official numbers are likely grossly under-reported). But, when all is said and done, they are still mooslims, and if given the opportunity, would do the exact same thing to da joos. I know that. It’s in their blood nature, to kill The Other.
Also, I will never ever forget …. the very day the Twin Towers came crashing down, it was the Palestinians who jumped for joy in the streets, screaming death to America, while handing out candy to children. I know who and what they are.
So, O’nigger is bombing ISIS. bwaahahahaha. What a fucking joke and buffoon of a diseased monkey-dick he is. As if taking out a few artillery pieces will have any effect. EVERYTHING that cockfuk half-breed does is half-assed.
Flash same fucking ragheads. Same belief system.
You see the beauty in all this don’t you?
A persons bias gives themselves away. You can almost do their thinking for them.
Hussein is an open borders one world guy. Breaking Iraq up into smaller ethnic parts is not apprehensible to Hussein.
Therefore, the Jets have to come from Aircraft Carriers and weapons can not be delivered to the Kurds directly.
As a matter of fact the only way weapons can be delivered is to terrorist covertly as opposed to the people who would erect their own nation state based on ethnicity.
Sensetti .I’m not defending nor do I support anything Islam . I’m just saying kick a hornet’s nest and you’ll get your ass stung…every-time.
Jews . Muslims and Christians lived together in relative if not subjective peace for centuries, up until the time the European medieval monarchies decided to fleece the Holy land. One part of the history of the Crusade most fail to understand is that Muslims and Christians fought against other Muslims and Christian for control control of resources and wealth.. much like today….And, just as back during the first crusades with Pope Urban II , we now have a modern day pope calling for “something to be done.” I fully expect something will be done and much like the misnamed “holy wars” nearly ten centuries past , it won’t change a damn thing..I think it was Twain who said, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
The fact that you hate Muslims does nothing to negate the facts surrounding the history of Western influence and domination of MENA which has led directly to mulsim hatred of all things western, including Christianity , which historically they always tolerated ale bit heavily taxed.
Westerners created the extreme hatred for Christianity in MENA .It’s a fact whether you like it or not.
As for Muslim themselves, I say deport all of them from the USA ,even the recent cracker lib-tard converts.It is the only security blanket the West has left.
I say deport all of them from the USA ,even the recent cracker lib-tard converts.
That’s your answer to everything, deportation. Deport the Muslims, the beaners, the niggers, the crackers, the crackheads, mother-lovers, thieves, robbers and jews…Carried out to it’s logical conclusion, the continent would revert back to the Indians.
Was it bb who said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? I’m sure he did because then he said that the country has left its Christian roots and gone full bore pantheist. I’m sure you expected it would be atheist but moh-gools, modern-American ignoranti, do not have the intelligence required to understand atheism. Instead, they go from the truth to wild experimenting with crazy stuff. Seventy virgins? Sounds awesome, where do I sign up? Mom and Dad are going to be real proud, they are second generation backsliders.
So, O’nigger is bombing ISIS. bwaahahahaha.
From Urban Dictionary: Bwahahaha!
Improper use of the much maligned correct Muahahaha. Often used with much gusto in place of actual intelligence.
Rin-tin-chen…if you can’t defend it , you don’t own it……my answer to everything.
The youth of Europe are slowly waking to the reality which dictates they either defend their heritage or lose it..It’s as simple as that.Hopefully the youth of America will awaken before the diversity clock strikes twelve.
SDU: Salute to the European youth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-lAGj_dlQ
Stucky says:
“Islam … I’ve been told it’s The Religion of Peace
How mooslims treat Christians ”
Hell Stucky, do a little research on how muslims treat other muslims…….even those of their own flavor. They are fucking savages from their brain right down to their toenails. For extra fun search only on videos of how they treat each other.
Once the bastards started lopping the heads off of westerners I searched out video of each beheading and then I started looking into how they treat each other. If you think getting your head lopped off is bad then you don’t want to see how they treat each other. Trust me, the westerners had it easy by comparison. For example, they will stick a pike up a guys ass then lift the pike to a vertical position with the man on it and leave him there until he dies. Could take minutes, could take days. Eventually the pike exits the body through the back, chest or shoulders due to gravity. Poor bastard is alive for most, if not all of it.
flash says: Rin-tin-chen
That’s hurtful.