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The New DU. Reply #34: Does anyone remember the Gulf of Tonkin?
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Melynn
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Thu Jan-27-05 02:32 AM
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| 34. Does anyone remember the Gulf of Tonkin? |
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Remember how LBJ ran U.S. destroyers into North Vietnam's territorial waters then stated that the North Vietnamese deliberately and without provocation attacked American naval ships.
That incident and the congressional resolution that followed gave LBJ power to defend American interests in Vietnam is all President Johnson needed to escalate the war in Vietnam.
You don't think the Bush administration is trying the same now....do you?
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