Clip from "The Fog of War" explaining the context of "The Gulf of Tonkin" incident that was used as the excuse for starting the Vietnam "War" --- and that "It didn't happen."
Channel: News & Politics Uploaded: June 29, 2006 at 1:54 am Author:RBoon
thetacogangsta(Friday 28th of November 2008 09:14:50 AM)
thats fucked up...its history repeating itself....some tragedy aoccurs and we go to war to kill more people....just like 911 and i wouldnt be surprised if 911 was actually a inside job orchestrated to give usa a reson to go to war.
funkyalfonso(Thursday 30th of October 2008 03:32:40 AM)
Ladybird Johnson was the major shareholder in Brown annd Root; a construction company that built Cam Rahn Bay and much else iin Vietnam. Brown and Root is a Haliburton company. Dick Cheney is just carrying on a tradition that goes back decades.
beatlebonzo(Sunday 28th of September 2008 10:40:53 PM)
This war was legally a non-starter.So Johnson
took a chapter from Hitlers propaganda plans
and falsified a
sea attack to whip up the public's sense of outrage.For Adolf,the plan
was to burn down the German Parliament - AKA The Reichstag. Find some mentally ill patsy who is willing to "confess" - preferably a
Jewish immigrant so that the Germans will buy
into Hitler's racial hatred and get them ready
for war. This formula seems to work well and
so other countries have copied it-ie,Gulf of Tonken
alexyhcrana(Thursday 2nd of October 2008 05:36:47 AM)
good point
JackJivewriter(Monday 17th of November 2008 01:15:18 AM)
There is a difference between escalation and invasion which you clearly don't understand. Hiltler waged invaded without provocation and staged the 'attack' of Poland by taking a criminal, suiting him up as a Polish soldier and shooting him. US soldiers were already fighting and dying in Vietnam to begin with. There was ONE attack on a destroyer and the other attack didn't happen. They were right once and wrong once if you kept watching the film.
Swazi4(Thursday 18th of September 2008 05:44:44 AM)
You do know that LBJ was pretty much carrying out JFK's administration right? No matter who was president, we would've waged the Vietnam War. The coup on President Diem which was helped by JFK will tell you that.
Scotty7617(Friday 19th of September 2008 03:50:33 PM)
Not necessarily. Even if Kennedy wasn't going to pull the US out, there's no guarantee he would have escalated it.
Kennedy had said he would not let Vietnam become America's war, and that regardless of what support the US provided, in the end it had to be the Vietnamese who did the fighting because it was their war.
Swazi4(Thursday 18th of September 2008 05:42:29 AM)
Well he and Kennedy didn't want the SV generals to kill Diem, but they wanted him out of power so they could take control of SV more than what Diem was allowing them.
erby1kabogey(Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:29:26 PM)
My uncle volunteered and proudly served in Vietnam only to be used as a guinea pig for Agent Orange and to come back a junkie! So fuck this piece of shit government! I wish I believed in Hell so I could take some sort of comfort that they'd all be there!
joej12a(Saturday 6th of September 2008 06:13:08 AM)
have fun getting your shit pushed in in hell robert mcnamara.you are the scum of the earth.
