Here we go again---this time with Iran?

[greensideout]

Tonkin Gulf resolution, in U.S. history, Congressional resolution passed in 1964 that authorized military action in Southeast Asia. On Aug. 4, 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin were alleged to have attacked without provocation U.S. destroyers that were reporting intelligence information to South Vietnam. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers decided upon immediate air attacks on North Vietnam in retaliation; he also asked Congress for a mandate for future military action. On Aug. 7, Congress passed a resolution drafted by the administration authorizing all necessary measures to repel attacks against U.S. forces and all steps necessary for the defense of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia. Although there was disagreement in Congress over the precise meaning of the Tonkin Gulf resolution, Presidents Johnson and Richard M. Nixon used it to justify later military action in Southeast Asia. The measure was repealed by Congress in 1970. Retired Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, in a 1995 meeting with former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, categorically denied that the North Vietnamese had attacked the U.S. destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964, and in 2001 it was revealed that President Johnson, in a taped conversation with McNamara several weeks after passage of the resolution, had expressed doubt that the attack ever occurred.

[greensideout]

U.S.: Iran boats harassed warships <br />
Officials call it 'provocative;' Iran says ships didn't recognize each other <br />
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NBC News and news services <br />
updated 11:42 a.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 7, 2008 <br />
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[sgt.r.n.davis]

It Will Be Soon ,when We Wake Up And Find Out That Another Us Ship Is Blown Up...by These Blood Thirsty Fools,,,hitler With A Head Scarf...iran Should Have Been Delt With About Two Years Ago...
Please Wake Up America....and The Real World Needs Too Also!!!
When The Lights Are Turn On Then You Can See Whats Hiding In The Dark...evil Folks Waiting To Kill You!!!!!!

Lord Help ,us...

[gutinstinct]

We should have blown Iran back to the stone age in the late 70's.

[greensideout]

My point is---the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joke, nothing more then a tool to fabricate a war. It was BS!
So the question is---is this BS as well?

[SSgt Blue]

Those MFers should have been sunk to the bottom of the gulf.

[hrscowboy]

welp Sgt that is what my thoughts were exactly.. the minute them boats came within 300 yards of the ships in my books thats an act of agression and we should have opened up on there arses... then got on the PA system and scream how do you like us NOW..

[LeonardLawrence]

No doubt Iran is a threat and a show down is imminent. Whether it be started with Israel or the US is the question.

Interesting point in this for me is the Iranian response...

That is something normal that takes place every now and then for each party, and it (the problem) is settled after identification of the two parties.

I would hate to see how they treat their "friends". :scared:

[Phantom Blooper]

The WHOLE Middle East and all countries from Iraq,Iran,Kuwait,Lebanon,Afghanistan and the other countries in between and all the countries that claim to be our middle eastern allies should be...