The Dead Sea was still alive back then right? :-p -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:55 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Tonkin 2 ??
just to let you young-un's know what an old f*rt I am, I had a DRAFT CARD in 1968. If not for a student deferment, then a medical exemption, I would have either had to go to Vietnam or Canada... -Ben > I'm not old enough, but i remember it from history class. In fact, > one of the destroyers were put out there so that the enemy can spot it > easily and shoot at it....reason for war! > > Me afraid Bush Administration might do something that sneaky with > Iraq, so everyone will be on their side. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:35 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Tonkin 2 ?? > > > anybody else old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution > during LBJ's presidency? > > The administration claimed that the destroyer U.S.S. > Maddox was innocently on routine patrol in the South > China Sea, when it was subjected to unprovoked attack by > a pair of North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats. > > Based on this, LBJ got the Congress to pass the > resolution authorizing any necessary measures, including military > force. > > This resolution became the administration's legal > foundation for the entire Vietnam conflict, although war > was never declared. > > It later came to light that the Maddox was not > innocently on patrol, it was participating in naval > exercises against North Vietnam in conjunction with the > South Vietnamese Navy. Further, the administration > admitted that the Maddox had not been fired upon - that > was a fabrication for the purposes of getting Congress > to pass the resolution. > > "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat > it" or something like that... > > <sigh> > > -Ben > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
