Monday, January 7, 2008

Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War

USS Maddox operating in the Gulf of Tonkin

"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 with a "deliberate attack" on a pair of U.S. ships two days later.

The truth was very different."

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