Benghazi Boogaloo

As for Iraq, don't ever say I am ignoring what happened there, I WAS THERE.

The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying U.S. conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.

In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded[7] that the Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there were no North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the incident of August 4. The report stated regarding August 2:


At 1505G, Captain Herrick ordered Ogier's gun crews to open fire if the boats approached within ten thousand yards. At about 1505G, the Maddox fired three rounds to warn off the communist boats. This initial action was never reported by the Johnson administration, which insisted that the Vietnamese boats fired first.[7]

Regarding August 4:


It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2

One of the Navy pilots flying overhead that night was squadron commander James Stockdale, who gained fame later as a POW and then Ross Perot's vice presidential candidate. "I had the best seat in the house to watch that event," recalled Stockdale a few years ago, "and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there.... There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

So the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution came out of a lie told by a democrat president, and that lie killed over 50,000 Americans and untold numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians.

Do you remember that war now?

mysteryman wrote:

So the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution came out of a lie told by a democrat president, and that lie killed over 50,000 Americans and untold numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians.

Do you remember that war now?

You seem to have forgotten all the Australians who died fighting one of your wars.

why are you still yakking on A2K? Your are a troll, everyone says so! *sarcasm*