Posted on 08/12/2024 11:02:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
History may or may not repeat and may or may not even rhyme. But certain events can only be ignored or dismissed with great peril.
Sixty years ago this month, the Congress recklessly and foolishly raced to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, with just two dissenting votes in the Senate. That law gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to begin a war in Vietnam that the U.S. would eventually lose.
The cause celebre was an alleged attack by North Vietnamese PT boats against two U.S. Navy destroyers patrolling off the North Vietnamese coast in international waters. Two days before, North Vietnamese PT boats had attacked USS Maddox, causing no damage. Maddox and USS Turner Joy were ordered to return to the patrol area.
But the second attack, like the discovery of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction four decades later, never took place.
How the U.S. could make two such grievous miscalculations is less important than preventing similar catastrophic decisions based on faulty or fabricated information. The murder of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran is one such event that could precipitate a disastrous outcome for the wrong reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If you still have to ask this question, that means you’re either clueless or refuse to accept the answer.
This is so wrong. Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We know that because he had used Nerve Gas against Iran.
Beginning in about 1984,[2] Iraq made extensive use of mustard (blister) and tabun (nerve agent), probably having chosen these compounds because they were the easiest to produce.He still had it and our military found individuals shells in abandoned stockpiles.
It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.Our military found evidence that toxic agents were poured into the Tigris or Euphrates riversThe specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.
All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”
Early in the initial air campaign of the 1991 Gulf War, U.S. and Coalition planes bombed massive Iraqi chemical weapons storage sites, releasing fallout that exposed U.S. troops to low-level sarin nerve agent. Sarin is fatal in high levels of exposure and causes long-term neurological impairment at low exposure levels. Jan 12, 2023
I am Spartacus!
Most of those special weapons went to Syria in he large convoy of rucks that was tracked from Iraq and Syria. Assad and the Syrian rebels both used some of them in their civil war in Syria.
My bet is and inside job by either other want-a-be Hamas leaders or the Iranian leadership that were just tired of his $#it.
Not to mention the enriched nuclear materials that were collected and shipped to Oak Ridge Tn. .
<>But unless Israel was entirely cynical, why eliminate the lead Hamas negotiator if any kind of settlement over hostages and ending the war in Gaza was possible? Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu may have had no intentions of seeking a ceasefire until Hamas was destroyed.<>
Wow, no ceasefire intentions until Hamas was destroyed?
Nothing slips by Harlan Ullman.
'Regional stability', yeah, good one. What happened to 'escalation'? Jew-hating nitwits.
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