{"id":127590,"date":"2022-08-07T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127590"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T20:20:36","slug":"the-false-flag-attack-that-started-the-vietnam-war-never-even-happened-no-torpedos-were-ever-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127590","title":{"rendered":"THE FALSE FLAG ATTACK THAT STARTED THE VIETNAM WAR NEVER EVEN HAPPENED (No Torpedos Were Ever Fired)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">THE FALSE FLAG THAT STARTED THE VIETNAM WAR &#8212; THERE WAS NO TORPEDO ATTACK IN THE GULF OF TONKIN<br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Tonkin Incident<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lKRcKfJFr48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/lKRcKfJFr48&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659989929659000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0G7pgC6-NzUAAIi6uen9MO\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/lKRcKfJFr48<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1964, Congress passed the \u201cGulf of Tonkin Resolution\u201d which began massive escalation of the US war and occupation of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a slow moving video, but stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s full of gems:<\/p>\n<p>1. The \u201cincident\u201d never happened and at least one of the radar men on duty knew and reported it (\u201cRadar men\u201d were later blamed for the false report.)<br \/>\n2. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution and all the immediate retaliatory actions after the \u201cincident\u201d had to have been planned weeks if not months in advance of August 4th.<br \/>\n3. We were lied into the Vietnam War with a faked incident attributed to North Vietnam \u2013 a classic false flag operation.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, Lyndon Johnson ran and won the presidency on a campaign of \u201cNo War in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then \u201csomething\u201d happened on the night of August 4th in the Gulf of Tonkin (after a previous incident on August 2nd) in international waters off of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Just six days later, the normally slow-moving Congress passed the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which formed the basis for military action in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>It was all based on a deliberate fraud as this former active duty Navy lieutenant explains.<\/p>\n<p>One two US Senators opposed the resolution: Senators Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Gruening (D-AK).<\/p>\n<p>Senator Gruening objected to \u201csending our American boys into combat in a war in which we have no business, which is not our war, into which we have been misguidedly drawn, which is steadily being escalated\u201d.<\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}