The Gulf of Tonkin Anniversary

The Gulf of Tonkin Anniversary

Today is the 61st anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The Johnson administration and the NSA alleged that North Vietnam attacked the USS Maddox ship that was deployed off the coast of North Vietnam. However, they knew that the alleged attack did not occur, yet they waged a brutal war of aggression against the Vietnamese people. Unfortunately, less than a year before the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the US national-security state probably mur…