The Kenyan OBullschidt Kid and his Dizzy City revisionist lackeys are now stifling the Pentagon Brass regarding the wacko North Korean idiot's "..acts of war.."!!! .. Kind of hard to mistake a freaking torpedo and a sunken ship for an "..oops - sorry 'bout dat, my bad.." one would think - unless wearing both-sides-chromed Demoncrap aviator sunglasses.
Pentagon won't say ship sinking is an act of war
By ANNE FLAHERTY (AP) – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top leadership refused on Thursday to label the sinking of a South Korean ship an act of war.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States supports the finding that North Korea sank a South Korean warship in March. South Korea announced the finding this week.
Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, say the next move is up to South Korea. They would not discuss what options the U.S. might have, even though the U.S. is a close ally of the South and maintains tens of thousands of troops on the North Korean border to defend the South.
Funny, aye...!!! Ol' Floppy Ears Johnson and his Demoncrap mob only needed a few shots at a US destroyer to initiate the whole Viet Nam War..!!!
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate incidents involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 the US destroyer USS Maddox while performing a DESOTO patrol, was engaged by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron[5]. A sea battle resulted, in which the Maddox expended over 280 3" and 5" shells, and which involved the strafing from four USN F8 Crusader jet fighter bombers. One US aircraft was damaged, one 14.5mm round hit the destroyer, 3 North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and 4 North Vietnamese sailors were killed and 6 were wounded; there were no US casualties.[6]
The second Tonkin Gulf incident, which occurred on August 4, 1964, was also a naval battle, but this time, may have involved the "Tonkin Ghosts"[7], and no actual NVN Torpedo Boat attacks. The outcome of this second incident was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying US conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.
In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded[8] that USS Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there may not have been any North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the engagement of August 4. The report stated
[I]t is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2.[9]
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I can't wait for the 2012 The (W)itch for Reich's Chancellor for Life campaign, as O-Boob-O is bounced out on his scrawny arse..............
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