Pierre Asselin
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first heard Apr 2025
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It could have been, you know, somebody firing a shot.
And then from there, like kind of all hell breaking loose because essentially in light of what had happened on the 2nd of August, everyone was on edge.
see.
And I think, you know, we have to also, I think we fail to recognize sometimes that the people who serve in our military are very, very young.
They're very, you know, it's...
It's a very good military, but I mean, a lot of these guys are kids, right?
And so in a very tense situation, information that would kind of under normal circumstances not generate any sort of panic can have the complete opposite.
And it seems that that's what happened here.
right?
They take fire from Vietnamese small gunboats, I guess we want to call them.
And then they sink and damage, I think, two or three of them.
But then on the fourth, there's no evidence that anything happened.
No.
No, and that's the thing.
And there's no evidence that either of the ships took fire.
And so, I mean, Johnson himself is reported to have said what he found out about the lack of evidence that, you know, those dumb sailors were probably shooting at flying fish, something along those lines.
I mean, Johnson himself was kind of at his doubts about this, but it was enough for him.
to use this as a pretext for getting the U.S.
more involved in Vietnam and getting Congress to give him that proverbial blank check to wage war in Vietnam, the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
You know, technically, right, the whole Vietnam War ends up being predicated on, I mean, I don't know if you want to call it a lie, but in a way, people need to recognize that it's kind of par for the course for the United States, right?
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