Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Navy Seals As Iranians, Shoot at American Boats

[barman]

Israel should launch missle strikes against Iran...while they still can.

Whats the problem?

Killing for reasons other than clear, uncut self defense is tantamount to murder.

If one perceives there are absolutely no other alternatives for Israel in order to stay alive until tomorrow, then by all means they should launch today.

 

[roadreeler57]

I heard reports that Obama was gay. Perhaps, perhaps not. Time will tell if this is accurate, but i think that many people will believe that Obama possibly might be gay!
http://larrysinclair0926.com/index2.html
:lol:

I love this argument because it can be used for absolutely everything! Thanks!

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[Mason]

after the trumped up charges against Iraq, some people are understandably quite edgy about these things

Don't forget they've also admitted the 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident we used justify our invasion and attack on Viet Nam never happened and we simply just invented it out of thin air.

 

[Willie99]

Don't forget they've also admitted the 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident we used justify our invasion and attack on Viet Nam never happened and we simply just invented it out of thin air.

So do you think LBJ called in a reporter most likely to report it and said; "hey, we're going to make up an incident just we can start a war, what do you think"?

 

[Dilrod]

This would just be business as usual, it's how governments operate. Although I think he's lying, the whole story is pretty bizarre, why the fuck would Cheney say those things in front of a reporter? It makes no sense.

 

[nhoj]

Cheney shoots at his buddies nothing new here. Just the way he was raised. A hunting trip anit a hunting trip unless you shoot something and wear the hell you buy an iranian costume at I might go as one on halloween?

 

[nimue77]

So do you think LBJ called in a reporter most likely to report it and said; "hey, we're going to make up an incident just we can start a war, what do you think"?

Washington, D.C., 4 August 2004 - Forty years ago today, President Johnson and top U.S. officials chose to believe that North Vietnam had just attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, even though the highly classified signals intercepts they cited to each other actually described a naval clash two days earlier (a battle prompted by covert U.S. attacks on North Vietnam), according to the declassified intercepts, Johnson White House tapes, and related documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Compiled by Archive senior fellow and Vietnam expert John Prados, today's 40th anniversary electronic briefing book includes Dr. Prados's detailed analysis of the intercepts - only declassified in 2003 - together with audio files and transcripts of the key Tonkin Gulf conversations between President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The latter are excerpted from Dr. Prados's book, The White House Tapes (New York: The New Press, 2003). The posting also contains photographs and charts from the Tonkin Gulf incident courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, a detailed documentary chronology compiled by the State Department's Office of the Historian for the Foreign Relations of the United States series, a CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses to U.S. actions from May 1964 (just declassified in June 2004), and links to previous and upcoming Archive publications on Vietnam.
For more information, contact Dr. John Prados or Archive director Thomas Blanton at 202/994-7000.

 

[Willie99]

Washington, D.C., 4 August 2004 - Forty years ago today, President Johnson and top U.S. officials chose to believe that North Vietnam had just attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, even though the highly classified signals intercepts they cited to each other actually described a naval clash two days earlier (a battle prompted by covert U.S. attacks on North Vietnam), according to the declassified intercepts, Johnson White House tapes, and related documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Compiled by Archive senior fellow and Vietnam expert John Prados, today's 40th anniversary electronic briefing book includes Dr. Prados's detailed analysis of the intercepts - only declassified in 2003 - together with audio files and transcripts of the key Tonkin Gulf conversations between President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The latter are excerpted from Dr. Prados's book, The White House Tapes (New York: The New Press, 2003). The posting also contains photographs and charts from the Tonkin Gulf incident courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, a detailed documentary chronology compiled by the State Department's Office of the Historian for the Foreign Relations of the United States series, a CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses to U.S. actions from May 1964 (just declassified in June 2004), and links to previous and upcoming Archive publications on Vietnam.
For more information, contact Dr. John Prados or Archive director Thomas Blanton at 202/994-7000.

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So do you think LBJ called in a reporter most likely to report it and said; "hey, we're going to make up an incident just we can start a war, what do you think"?

I'm missing the part about telling the press about it beforehand.