#USInvaders were guided by the #DominoTheory - if Vietnam fell to communism, so would Laos, Cambodia & all of southeast Asia. The Gulf of #Tonkin changed things a lot.
According to the USA, Vietnamese patrol boats attacked the USS Maddox moored in the Gulf. Immediately, a resolution was passed to officially engage in war. President LB Johnson, the ‘heart of the war,’ sent 500,000 US troops to South Vietnam in 1965 to fight against North Vietnam in the north and the Viet Cong in the south. He called it Operation Rolling Thunder. The campaign would rain 864,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam over the next three-and-a-half years, killing 52,000 North Vietnamese.
In the 2003 #documentary - #TheFogOfWar - the #USgovernment admitted that they had fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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![‘Message from Khe Sanh.’ [Khe Sanh Combat Base Museum]
Black and white image of a person's back, wearing an army jacket with handwritten text. The text reads: "CAUTION: BEING A MARINE IN KHE SANH MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH." and "3rd BN. 26th" with the word "NEWSWEEK" in quotes below. The man is seen from the back, wearing a hat, with the jacket's collar up.](https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/193/703/659/263/463/original/80fe7320329eb2ff.jpg)
The US never learned from its past mistakes in South East Asia. It's using same #DominoTheory in their attacks on #MiddleEast under false guise of stopping the #Muslim threat from spreading.
They're still fabricating attacks & using propaganda to try to fool people.
Do not buy more lies from #TerroristUSA.
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