PRETEXT On July 30, 1964, enemy torpedo boats supposedly attacked a US destroyer, the USS Maddox, in North Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin. This lie of an “unprovoked attack” against a “routine patrol” threw the U.S. headlong into war.
The Maddox was actually involved in “aggressive intelligence gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam.”60 They wanted to provoke a response “but the North Vietnamese wouldn't bite. So, Johnson invented the attack.”61
The US task force commander for the Gulf of Tonkin “cabled Washington that the report was the result of an ‘over-eager’ sonarman who picked up the sounds of his own ship's screws and panicked.”62
RESPONSE On August 5, 1964, although he knew the attack had not occurred, Johnson couldn’t resist this opportunity for a full-scale war. History of US war pretexts here.
It Always starts with a staged provocation. They've had a few test runs, i.e. downed drone, and we are being led right up to It. It could be what throws this country into true rebellion, or I could be doing some wishful thinking. We shall see....
ReplyDeleteIt still amazes me that so few people know about the Tonkin false flag.
ReplyDeleteIt almost destroyed my generation.
It destroyed Viet Nam and its people.
The domino principal is still intact.
Now it is global.
May these Masters of War be exposed, and find their own death in the mirror.
An Iranian rug merchant, an American citizen now, said to my sister, "Americans are either asleep or pretending to be asleep." And that has been the case for a very long time.
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