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Obama Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution By Bombing Iraq
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
“Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish!”
- U.S. President Lyndon Johnson commenting on the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Fifty years ago yesterday, on August 7, 1964, Congress passed the now infamous Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which led to a massive escalation of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Without a formal declaration of war, the resolution permitted President Johnson to take “all necessary measures” to support South Vietnam, including armed forces. This resulted in 58,000 dead Americans and well over a million dead Vietnamese, both civilians and military personnel.
The resolution was passed based on President Johnson’s claim that the destroyer USS Maddox had been attacked for the second time in one week. While the Maddox did indeed suffer from a torpedo attack on August 2, 1964 after a raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats, the second attack was a pure fabrication. Furthermore, Johnson never discussed the background on the initial incident to Congress. Had Congress actually knew what happened it may have prevented this resolution from passing, thus saving millions of lives. Here’s a quick summary from History.com:
On August 2, shortly after a clandestine raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats, the U.S. destroyer Maddox (conducting electronic espionage nearby) was fired on by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Two days later, in the same area, the Maddox and another destroyer reported that they were again under attack. Although these reports now appear to have been mistaken, Johnson proceeded quickly to authorize retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam. The next day he gathered congressional leaders and, without divulging the circumstances that might have helped provoke the torpedo attack, accused the North Vietnamese of “open aggression on the high seas.” He then submitted to the Senate a resolution that authorized him to take “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.” The resolution was quickly approved by Congress; only Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against it. Later, when more information about the Tonkin incident became available, many concluded that Johnson and his advisers had misled Congress into supporting the expansion of the war.
Even worse, within days of the attack, Johnson reportedly told State Department official George Ball that “Hell, those dumb, stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish! So he clearly knew he was escalating a war based on a fabrication.
Things clearly haven’t changed much when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. After all, how did Barack Obama celebrate the 50th anniversary? By bombing Iraq again of course.
Since I've been alive, pretty much every ten years the government I was born under bombs Iraq.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 8, 2014
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He pulled out the special, rarely used, Johnson bhang to celebrate.
"pass this bill, ill have those niggers voting democrat for the next 50 years"
fuck LBJ. sociopath, criminal
Thank you.
It needed to be said.
pass out these phones and i'll have.....
Yes.
Not much has "changed"...only the face.
Fifty years is about up, non?
Needs to be stated...
Osama bin Laden was never captured.
BP Oil destroyed the Gulf of Mexico
Obamacare is destroying America
Obama is a "Terrorist".
He does not uphold the American Constitution, was not born on US soil and is a true blue Muslim.
Sir, Osama Bin Laden was BURIED AT SEA.... On the bottom of this sea lies the truth of what actually happened....
Osama bin Laden died in 2001 and no one knows if anyone was buried at sea much less bin laden. Probably they wrapped up the days garbage and dumped it overboard.
Can't wait to see who he bombs to celebrate the 70th anniversary of bombing Japan with nukes in 2015...
I voted for Obama because he's black. I'm a guilty white man. So why don't you kill me? Bitchez.
Someone went into Russian territory.
Who could've sent their submarine in??
http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-says-its-navy-detected-expelled-us-submarine-russian-waters-local-media-say-1653996
Gulf of Tonkin Incident: ‘Classic False Flag Operation’ For War In Vietnam
I guess he figured why celebrate with foreign made bottle rockets and roman candles when we've already stockpiled so many laser guided munitions. Asshole.
Well, its’snot like we all had heady hula hoops while silp’n sliding…;
Paul and Mick were bare yutes and I saw Led Zeppelin live for five bucks.. got spare change?
nobody read your lame blog, make ads somewhere else & go hang yourself, BITCH
he was the days garbage
Senators Knew Gulf Of Tonkin Ws Staged Event — Docs Show
THAT IS A LIE ! PROVE I AM WRONG
See, here's the deal. Muslims are a seafaring people, always have been, always will be. He was dumped overboard on a routine voyage.....
I heard he slipped overboard while taking the air.
“I Got An Obama Gun!”
He wouldn't walk the plank so they slid his ass down it.
"Muslims are a seafaring people"
Indeed they are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaha0oZojFk
I AM WRONG ! PROVE THAT IS A LIE
Gallery of fake dead bin Ladens:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/galleryoffakebinladens.php
y3maxx
bin ladin died in a hospital over 12 years ago
you are jewish just like obama : )
see how easy it is to make shit up
The shell game can only go on so long.
The funniest part in this whole tragic comedy is, we were the ones who were called razzzists. For us lighting matches to burn LBJ's "massah's" house down, we were called teabaggers. For us saying its beneath the diginity of anyone to be forced to accept charity, we were called bigots.
Well, thats all fine and good in the political realm but reality is very different and it doesn't take many generations to figure out they've been lied to.
Martha's Veeenyarrrd anyone?
What's on tap for vacation today? Maybe a morning round of 18 holes followed by watching the conclusion of the PGA Championship, with a pre-taped press conference thrown in for political distraction.
The ISIS mandate "open borders mean open warfare"
We have a ways to go yet, he said 200, not 50 years:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40889
you really do have a couple people who seem to exist only to downvote every thing you say. you should be proud
Yes, I do and I am. I live completely rent free in their heads and they know it...lol.
And I gotta say, there is a lot of space in between their ears ;-)
don't forget where that program started. It may have began as a way to make sure so home lacked the ability to contact emergency services, but it grew into giving parasite free cell phones. An example of govt programs never ending, only growing and morphing into something so bloated as to be unrecognizable
Many (most?) of the people condemned by victorious liars for their own corrupt purposes were the best friend ever in history to them. America was rare and raw and real and OK. An eternal special people. Once in history. I was there! Deal with that. Don't choose what you want to believe about it. Big parts that are not are weakly accepted as generally accepted. You guys accept that BS as much as you do everything else. The truth of history will set you free. And help it all make sense. When I sober up.
Tell em Chris Rock.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
I look Forward! to you sobering up...lol.
Please add crypto jew.
Common thread. Lester AIPAC Crown aka General Dynamics. He supported LBJ and Obama's biggest and earliest supporters plus also owns McCain and Jeff Flake (AZ).
Obama and LBJ were/are owned by the same people.
http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?topic=10420.20;wap2
"Rumours began circulating that Baker was involved in corrupt activities. Although officially his only income was that of Secretary to the Majority in the Senate, he was clearly a very rich man. Baker was investigated by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He discovered Baker had links to Clint Murchison and several Mafia bosses. Evidence also emerged that Lyndon B. Johnson was also involved in political corruption. This included the award of a $7 billion contract for a fighter plane, the F-111, to General Dynamics, a company based in Texas. On 7th October, 1963, Baker was forced to resign his post. Soon afterwards, Fred Korth, the Navy Secretary, was also forced to resign because of the F-111 contract."
cryptic Freddie. I had to research who this might be talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Baker
"Baker was investigated for allegations of congressional bribery using money and arranged sexual favors, in exchange for votes and government contracts.... Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was able to arrange a deal with J. Edgar Hoover to quell mention of the Rometsch [JFK tart] allegations in the Senate investigation of Bobby Baker. Hoover successfully limited the Senate investigation of Baker by threatening to release embarrassing information about senators contained in FBI files. In exchange for this, Robert Kennedy reassured Hoover that his job as FBI Director was secure..."
what's your point?
As far as I can tell every important player hated JFK and so didn't squawk a peep when he was taken out - they were either in on it, or happy he was gone.
Good read.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/cambodia-and-western-fabrication-...
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Re: LBJ -- Yeah, fuck that mother fucker.
The next attack should be the citizenry attacking DC
The other Destroyer involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident was the Turner Joy.....
Fourth time's the charm... or was it fifth?
Anyway it's "Hope for change" time once again...
We have Always been at War with Eastasia.
The Iraq Debacle now has lasted LONGER than the combined years of
The Civil War, WW1, WW2, and The Revolutionary War.
The 'War on Terror' debacle is even older since it started in Afghanistan. Let's not even talk about the 'War on Drugs' debacle...
The more things change... etc.
Moar guns and butter
Anyone interested in the true origins of the American war in Vietnam, should read L. Fletcher Prouty's book. Prouty was a retired USAF colonel. He worked at the highest level of US Special Operations. --
A major spark for the Vietnam War included the transport of more than 1.1 million rural, tradition bound people from the north to the south by the US government. The Americans supported these northerners, who would later make up the new government in the south. The existing people in the south who were supplanted by the new northerners, were kicked off their land and were driven to banditry in order to feed themselves and survive. They were branded as the 'Vietcong'. They were branded as 'communists' though few of them could have told you what that word means. They were driven by hunger and desperation.
More importantly, elements in the US government and military-industrial complex got one of the new Asian wars that they had been working on even before WW2 ended. (The supplies for the invasion of Japan were diverted to Korea and Vietnam after the atomic bombs were dropped. Those supplies and weapons were used by the forces that would be at the heart of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Ho Chi Minh was initially supported and supplied this way.)
Does this all sound familiar ?
Nothing new under the sun.
HA,I'm reallu happy that someone reads late Col. Prouty.
That war mongering republican Johnson...lol...I swear.
Wait, wut? ;-)
well-played!
We shall continue to bomb Iraq until their morale significantly improves......or our morals significantly improves.
Nice one CD.
Mostly should be called Mooral and Moorales now......
It amazes me how many fools in America fawn over the military "protecting our freedom" bullshit slogans (in fact they really do the opposite), but also how many families support kids joining the US military. Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Supporting an evil cause.
Those were conscripts. These are killers.
No one being told to go into the Sandbox now is under any illusion. "This is what the payment is for." Move along...
Make sure you cash your VA check killer.
In a "voluntary' military there are four basic reasons to join. Political Ideology, a paycheck and/or other compensation, to be part of a group with a strong sense of purpose or potentially the legal right to kill. Everything else can be fit into those four categories. Sadly they all have a place in this man's army.
#2 is one of the reasons behind the open border policy of allowing thousands of uneducated, unskilled, very poor into the country who would be overjoyed for that $30,000 signing-up bonus to become a fully employed soldier in our 100% volunteer focres [and also promised citizenship for x years of service].
Much different then Vietnam when we had the draft.
You left out #5:
To acquire military training for the purpose of insurrection.
Lol
Like I said, political ideology. I didn't say for whom or to what.
"Protecting our freedoms" has been one of the most successful propaganda campaigns ever conceived.
followed after 9/11 with "support the troops"
Are you kidding??!!!! Didn't you here there was a three-star general who was killed?? Somebody's got to pay for that shit, even if it was an inside job "friendly-fire" incident and the people that pay are thousands of miles a way and had nothing to do with it. Damn, you obviously don't have a clue how testosterone and the military work. Your logic is on a different level.
They recruit 18 year olds for a reason.
"Young, dumb, and full of cum."
Plenty of young bucks who wanna get on another 'team' after all those years playing football and other sports. Jocks who like to do physical things. They know zero about history or global politics, but were taught to cheer 'our team!'
Throw in no skills, paltry finances & job prospects, and the desire to prove their 'manhood' - and a lot of these kids sign up.
They're completely clueless. But, how much did you know when you were 18?
Bombing Iraq is the new Presidential bucket list item.
"Fight We Must!"
Yeah right, to keep Rand, Lockeed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup-Grumman, Raytheon, etc. profits as green as can be.
Never mind if the red blood of good kids and innocents is spilled, to war!
Funny how they call them "defense" contractors, eh?
Orwell and Huxley saw it all coming.
Its all defensive, every single flight thousands and thousands of miles from home to bomb people walking on the ground that have no airforce,no navy, no army....but one day they might and they might not be too happy with us so we better kill them all now....you can't be too safe.
Mars, the god of war, desires blood sacrifices.
The names change, the song remains the same.
Same as it ever was.
I often quote this Robert Newman guy on US and UK foreign policy. If you're haven't discovered him yet, give it just 2 minutes of your time and you'll be hooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLQA_p4jE4
his "History of Oil" is both entertaining and enlightening.
Robert Newman, tells the truth with a humorous bent.
Loved his "history of oil"- highly recommend if you haven's seen it!
what happened to all the closed files of the kennedy assassination that were to be opened after 50 years? i've been waiting nearly my entire life
it was 75 years actually so.... eat right, exercise, relax and your wait will be over....in 2037
Nope. It was 50. They just changed it to 75 and then claimed it always was 75. How 1984 can you get?
That can was kicked down the road a few more decades. While many involved in the Presidential killing are long since dead the techniques used are still employed today. If the truth were exposed about JFK people might see similarities to today's world and start asking uncomfortable questions. (Your) Ignorance is bliss bitches.
Yup, watched an awesome documentary on JFK a month or so ago on some obscure network. IMO the world woud have been a very different place if they wouldn't have blown his head off! The shit show continues!
Nobel Peace Prizes ain't what they used to be.
It was a "PIECE" prize, as in piece of shit.
You guys still are all descended from hero's. You can be surprised when you jump the gaps. Depressions, Civil and World Wars. May yet prevail.
Can one of these cock sucking monetary banking shit heads discuss the fucking CDC government who doles tell us why elbola failed..
Let's just fucking bomb Iraq dam and blame it on ISIS.
Hey! I remember too well watching the Gulf of Tonkin live with a grave looking LBJ and his horn rimmed glasses on the B&W RCA! It was three summers prior to the Race Riots in Detoilet and instead of enjoying a rare warm Michigan summer evening outside playing, "...the PRESIDENT was on TV."
My, how times changed. When word spread that "The President" would be on TV, everyone's plans changed. I recall dutifully feeling enraged that some distant foe would challenge our suprerior forces, never thinking that we were all being lead down a path to empty our very own Treasury.
Many good books on the VietNam era, the best being "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh--all from an NVA soldier's perspective and the classic "Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" by Neil Sheehan. A page turner.
Every reader here at ZH owes it to him or herself to visit ALL of Vietnam from one end to another and draw their own conclusions. Travel by bus, train, perferably bicycle. Stay off the main highways if you wish to live. All the VN hamlets are interconnected by a series of nifty---mostly paved ---rice trails. They are not on any maps.
GPS experience is advised like a good Garmin unit or similar. Now I am canvassing all the minor roads of Thailand. VietNam is unique. We had good intel....refused to listen to it.
When I was young, Vietnam was synonymous with tragedy and war.
As an older adult, Vietnam is now synonymous with lies and murder.
Every President has to rack up his own personal body count, Obama is miles behind Bush and time is running out.
"Every. Generation needs their war." A. Hitler.
Take Plenipotentiary powers...this is how they get used.
Again...move the phuck along...
Patience, patience. He still has time to add to his legacy.
Would be great if Obummer behaved like Nixon
and resigned 'for the good of the Nation"
It would be enough for me to see him flash the peace sign and shout, "I am not a crook!"
yes but earlier today on this site i read of a group called isis.
it seems it got all the jewish folks on here hot and bothered about muslims.
a jewish fella gave a link to a catholic site showing horrible things that seemed to get the jewish and the goy folks real worked up about the savage muslims kill them all now kind of thing.
tonkin was fakery according to the folks in the msm and on here isis is real some folks even said they need to be stopped because thry will come to america real soon.
isis is real not like the gulf of tonkin.
isis has been on the cnn fox and the bbc history channel for years we know so much about the isis leader shimon elliot elliot simon he more famous than elen digenerate,matt demon or gorge cooney combined in a black saturn cube.
these forums are like being back in the middle ages sometimes burn the witch burn um like it was long agos befores oliver cromwells times.
if the jewish folks on here say isis is real and it has nothing to do with israel i say believe them they are are close friends of are hard working presdent they must be he just gave them another 10 thousand depleted uranium bombs for gaza.
obarme just gave another 500 million dollars he must really love them jews fellas not in a gay way just in a talmudic religion kind of way.
tonkin is long time ago.
what we should do is the jewish fellas on here should have a star of david the sin bull of the saturnic cube as an avatar so when they write the stuff about anything we can believe them without argument.
we can see satans star so we will automatically understand that the words are rabbi truth.
Burp.... excuse me.
On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. The USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.
http://www.gtr5.com/
Thanks for posting. I knew several survivors.
The forgotten story of Iran Air Flight 655
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/16/the-forgott...
No war, no economy. Impure and simple. You're either long the death merchants or you're long your immortal soul. Too bad we're all conscripted, complicit and co-opted, willingly or otherwise...We learned much less than nothing from VIETNAM.
Kerry and McCain are the best examples of people who should have learned from VIETNAM but did not.
I don't know which one is worse: Kerry, the 'Nam vet "peacenik" who wants to bomb every country in Asia and Africa; or ex-POW McCain who is in favor of global military intervention and secret torture prisons.
Obama's entire life is like a reverse Pinocchio story, the story of how a real boy became a fake puppet.
+10 LOL
I remember LBJ on TV talking about the Gulf of Tonkin. I was 14 in 1964. And every year after, at 15, 16, 17, I hoped the Vietnam War would be over before I graduated from HS.
Sadly, after graduation, I enlisted. No Army for me, or USMC. I was in the Wild Blue Yonder.
At 18, Dubya and I ran away and went AWOL from the USAF.
Dubya and I both "lit out for the territories," as that Civil War deserter, Mark Twain airily described his own flight from an unnecessary war. Dubya headed east towards Alabama, (perhaps inspiring that fictional character Forrest Gump), and I headed north to Canada in a stolen car. Somewhere in Texas our paths may have crossed (we were both there four years). We may have exchanged a salute at some Air Force function. Maybe we flirted with the same Trinity College coeds. Maybe the future "war president" passed me in his little red convertible while I hitch-hiked across the state. I crossed the Texas north to south and east to west on two occasions between my unlawful A.W.O.L --"Away without official leave"--and his flight much later.
But military officers and enlisted men seldom mix. The levels of human society, like fossil beds from different epochs, appear inches apart in the bedrock of American society, but the reality is impossibly distant, separated by eons of bloodlines. "He was born at the intersection of two elites," wrote Michael Kingsley of George W. Bush: "The eastern WASP establishment and the Texas oiligarchy." If we had perchance met, Dubya and I, it was a brief but unmemorable moment. The fate we both shared in common was flight, a youthful yearning for horizons unfettered by rules and restrictions and the wide open road.
Three days and fifteen hundred miles later, I was back exactly where I started: the gatehouse at Lackland air base. I had returned to "face the proverbial music." For my actions I would spend 35 days in the medium security stockade there at Lackland and receive three years probation as a first-time offender. By George, I felt relieved, felt I had gotten off lightly.
Dubya headed east around 1972, disappeared for almost six months, and never did face the music. The Alabama air national guard commander said he never saw Lt. Bush. Desertion, dereliction of duty, is defined by being AWOL longer than 31 days. I suppose a future president enjoys certain youthful privileges that others do not, but why one military person should be exonerated and another not, seems unfair, seems un-American.
But a precedent was set that day in Texas, when Dubya and I "lit out for the territories." Therefore, I suggest that each officer or enlisted man, stateside or in Iraq, follow the same example set by our Commander-in-Chief. Run away for six months or a year. Run away to Rio, Maui or Miami; you'll feel better for it. Run away. Work on your tan or--as George reportedly did--work for a man running a political campaign.
Leave the killing and maiming to others; you have better things to do. Like loving and living. After six months or a year, return for that honorable discharge. What was good for the goose is good for the gander. Who knows, maybe one day you too might become president. Just don't forget to pack your family connections.
And that's my true story. What happened after? The USAF took me back and made me a driver. MOS: Vehicle Operator.
Thanks.
When we see that distingWished veteran, we should salute and say, "Thank you for keeping America safe."
Can you please elect a president without dark desires of bombing half the World?
Can you Americans and NATO countries leave the rest of the World fu..ing alone?
Don't your gvts have enough blood on their hands?
Warmongers all terrain. Un fu...g believable. It's even awful teaching History. And they call it "The First World", the "Developed World".
The presidents typically have no desires of their own. They're voice boxes with wires running out. Those that speak their minds get the JFK treatment.
Bingo Julia.
The President's job is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from those who yield power.
Lately it seems that the rest of the media is stepping on his toes, performing his duties, and taking his job.
Usually it's not necessary to give the Puppet-in-chief a private showing of the Zapruder film. Every candidate from either party has been vetted long before and has been made to commit a blackmail-able offense. The carrot of millions post-office mean that they don't need to be shown the stick.
TNTARG is being a bit harsh on the American people and their "voting". I wonder what country he's from -- is there a real functioning democracy ANYWHERE?
Iceland seems to fit the description.
I'd say Switzerland ostensibly appears to be the closest.
A bookend of lies separated by 50 years of lies, theft and murder..
"It's not lies if it's all bullshit."
bankrupt in so many ways
Let's hold a BEST FALSE FLAG COMPETITION with the WINNER getting to carry it out for REAL.
Israel and the DC US already won with 9/11.
Jews are going to kill off the life on the planet. (jews command the Kenyan moron)
http://www.corbettreport.com/cold-war-2-0-and-the-threat-of-nuclear-warf...
You're a maroon.
That's right, Bugs Bunny got more sense than you.
And the Jesuits command the Zio bastard people.
OT; But top of the order of ZH Teets:
http://t.co/K7LpB7cwug
"If you're black and don't like dogs chewin' on your ass stay outta Whitey's way.............. Bitch!"
OH!!!
And check out this sweet ass bitchen Military Spec Vehicle weeze got fer FREEE to keep you down!!!!
Whose dick ya gotta suck to get an RPG? Cheney? Or he's only got 12 gauge?
The "humanitarians" in this administration, and amongst the neocons (!), are now pointing to the conquest by ISIS of the last Christian cities in Iraq as a reason why we need to go back to Iraq. That has got to be some gruesome joke, because when Christian cities in Syria were being overrun by US-supported Islamic rebels – the same ones who are now rampaging through Iraq – we heard not a peep from any of these people.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/07/sneaking-back-into-iraq/
Much to the delight of the chemical companies and bomb companies.
<Fuckbama's brain thoughts>
"Much to do before the dunes and Reggie....hope the weather is good. I want outdoor sex. Those pesky agents better have the RIGHT agent this time for close-order. No surprises.
What? That cunt Jarrett wants me to speak again? Damn....just cashed a bowl - dunno if I can pull it....
YES Michelle....damn that bitch boy is un-nerving.....OK OK....no more sneaking smokes.....(bitch).....
Oh....bomb who? .....uh......OK....what does the firm have to.....oh....ok...make a speech....fuck.....just before the helicopter ride....makes me queasy....
Some weaponary was obviously heading towards its use-by date.
Since Putin is not playing ball they had to use it somewhere.
We don't hear much about the SU25s in the Iraqi Air Force. The US Marines clearly don't want them to get too much experience.
To celebrate today he'll bomb them with a bunch of mis-hit golf balls.
P.S. Don't worry about that water Obama. Just pretend it's not even there.
Also this past week:
100th anniverary of start of WW I.
40 years since Nixon resigned.
Wish 0baMao would resign!
Fire up the grill!
Essentially, we've always had a gullible, jellyfish-like Congress.
LBJ had to pretend the US was actually attacked, and without provocation.
But now the US has an "interest" in every corner of the globe.
So the US gets to bomb whether actually attacked or not.
Nowadays only takes an imagined potential "threat" to US "interests"
or to the alleged "interests" of putative "allies"
to get a US beat down by droning, bombing, or black op assassination.
The US, however, still likes to pretend it neither initiates nor provokes violence.
BananObama be better celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Philippe Petit's walk from WTC1 to WTC2. It's a tough act to follow. It's a cruel summer for bananarama once again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jov-HMaOPQ
for an encore in NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-4Z9SHBs8