Watch this short video about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Amazingly enough, it’s not yet common knowledge that the whole incident was also an ‘inside job,’ like so many other terrifying world events. Yes, it’s been declassified and the supporting documents are included below the video.

Below is one of the declassified documents exposing the deception of the Gulf of Tonkin

(U) Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964

The below article summarizes the event fairly well.

Documents Show Tonkin Gulf Intelligence Also ‘Skewed’

By Robert Longley, About.com Guide to US Government Info since 1997

Friday December 2, 2005

Drawing a parallel to faulty intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program given to the White House in the run up to the Iraq War, the National Security Archives has released recently unclassified documents showing that there was no second attack on U.S. ships in Tonkin Gulf on August 4, 1964. Then President Lyndon Johnson used reports of the Tonkin Gulf attacks as the basis for his presentation to Congress in support of intensified U.S. military intervention in Vietnam.

The documents published by the Archive include histories, chronologies, signals intelligence [SIGINT] reports, and oral history interviews. According to National Security Archive res

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earch fellow John Prados, “the American people have long deserved to know the full truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The National Security Agency is to be commended for releasing this piece of the puzzle. The parallels between the faulty intelligence on Tonkin Gulf and the manipulated intelligence used to justify the Iraq War make it all the more worthwhile to re-examine the events of August 1964 in light of new evidence.”The National Security Archives is independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Documents published by the Archive are declassified and acquired through standard use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

When I talk to people about the Gulf of Tonkin incident I am amazed at how many people seem to think it’s some ‘historical footnote’. Untold people died and even more pledged the better part of their lives trying to prevent and stop this conflict. Why would it matter that the whole premise of the war was a lie? Because we didn’t have to be there if it was a lie! Simple, right? What about WMDs? Does the same apply now to Iraq?

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