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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was directly used by LBJ to start the war. The act of Congress was called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org
by luffapi 5y ago
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was directly used by LBJ to start the war. The act of Congress was called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution
Yes, there’s a lot of events that led to this, but this is the act that started the war, and it was completely fabricated.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was directly used by LBJ to start the war. The US had been fighting the war since 1954. > The act of Congress was called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Acts of Congress may authorize or declare wars, but they only start wars if the armed conflict isn’t already underway when Congress acts. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution didn't start the Vietnam War (or US involvement in that war), much as the “Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same” of December 8, 1941, didn’t start WWII, or US involvement therein (though the latter was closer in time to the start of US involvement in WWII than the former was to the start of US involvement in the Vietnam War.)
- luffapi 5y agoThe military exercises Morrison was executing were obviously also pre-war. This was the official start of the war.
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