13 Mar 10
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Originally posted by FreakyKBH"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses
Back to the topic previously at hand...
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
something of its attractiveness." ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth --
persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." ~ John F. Kennedy
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." ~ Mal Pancoast
13 Mar 10
Originally posted by HandyAndyNot totally correct. There were two alleged attacks on the Maddox. The one on Aug 2 did happen, but the alleged attack on Aug 4 did Not. In 2007 information was made public. National Security Agency history of signals intelligence (SIGINET)in Vietnam was released. You can read about it here:
In the case of Tonkin, the truth (that there was no attack against U.S. warships) was revealed
many years later. I don't recall the details of who and how, but it was too late to change the
course of history. An effort was made to discover what really happened, but the war was over.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Case+closed:+the+Gulf+of+Tonkin+incident:+a+recently+released...-a0214998201
GRANNY.
