Retired US army colonel implies that a war with Iran could start with a Vietnam-type false flag operation
After
Tucker Carlson brought additional embarrassment to the pseudo-Left
warmongering liberals with his anti-war positions, he tried to make
Trump appear, more or less, as a kind of peace defender. He was
joined by Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel.
Both
Carlson and Macgregor attempted to blame Trump's warmongering
officials and the war lobby for the fact that another devastating
war, this time with Iran, becomes more and more possible. The truth
is slightly different because Trump has enormous responsibilities for
this development too. He was from the start very hostile against
Iran, he did everything in his power to kill the Iran nuclear deal
and put the most bloodthirsty, anti-Iran neocons in key positions.
Yet, it
would be worth to focus on a peculiar statement by Macgregor at the
end of this short interview. As he said:
You
and I know that there are lot of people who would welcome conflict
with Iran, that's obvious. I think the president needs to watch
carefully for the potential for something like the Gulf of Tonkin
incident. Many of your viewers may not remember that - it never
happened.
The Gulf
of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident,
was an international confrontation that led to the United States
engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or
two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United
States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
The
original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but
eventually became very controversial with widespread belief that at
least one, and possibly both incidents were false, and possibly
deliberately so.
It was
originally claimed by the National Security Agency that a Second Gulf
of Tonkin incident occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle,
but instead evidence was found of "Tonkin ghosts" (false
radar images) and not actual North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
In the
2003 documentary The Fog of War, the former United States
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the August 2
USS Maddox attack happened with no Defense Department response, but
the August 4 Gulf of Tonkin attack never happened. In 1995, McNamara
met with former Vietnam People's Army General Võ Nguyên Giáp to
ask what happened on August 4, 1964 in the second Gulf of Tonkin
Incident. "Absolutely nothing", Giáp replied. Giáp
claimed that the attack had been imaginary.
The
outcome of these two incidents 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
U.S. conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against
North Vietnam.
So, it's
quite clear that Macgregor suggests a potential false flag operation,
similar with the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to the US
engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. This time, it will be used
as a pretext by the US to start a war with Iran.
Recall
that the last decade we had an increased number of naval episodes
between the US and Iran in the broader Persian Gulf. These could
contribute significantly in a potential effort of staging a
subsequent false flag operation of that type.
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