"A Contrived Gulf Of Tonkin-Type Incident May Occur"

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Robert Gates, Bush's newly appointed "Sceretary Of War," informed a gathering of reporters that the decision to deploy a Patriot missile battalion and a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf in conjunction with an escalation of U.S. Occupation Forces in Iraq was designed to show Iran that the US was not "overcommitted" in Iraq.

Speaking in Brussels after meeting Nato officials, Mr Gates said: "We are simply reaffirming that statement of the importance of the Gulf region to the United States and our determination to be an ongoing strong presence in that area for a long time into the future."

Republican Congressman Ron Paul fears a staged Gulf of Tonkin-style incident may be used as a pretext to legitimize retaliation via air strikes on Iran.

Writing in his syndicated weekly column, the representative warned of "a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident (that) may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran."

The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident--where US warships were apparently attacked by North Vietnamese PT Boats-- was cited by President Johnson as a legitimate provocation mandating U.S. escalation in Vietnam, yet Tonkin was a staged charade that never took place.

Declassified LBJ Presidential Tapes [1] discuss how to spin the non-event to escalate it as justification for air strikes and the NSA Faked Intelligence [2] data to make it appear as if two US ships had been lost.

Should a staged provocation take place in an attempt to justify striking Iran it would not be the first time the current administration has considered such a ploy.

In February 2006, documents were leaked of a conversation between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush in which different scenarios were discussed in an attempt to bait the ex-Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, into committing an "Act of War."

One scenario that was discussed was painting a U.S. spy plane in UN colors and flying it low over Iraq in the hope it would be shot down and the incident exploited as a means of enlisting international support for the 2003 invasion.

many mainstream media outlets are readily repeating Bush's disinformation that Iran is supplying weapons to Iraqi insurgents that are killing U.S. occupation forces.

Larry Chin elaborates, reminds us that: "The Bush administration buildup towards Iran is strikingly similar to Hitler’s campaign against Poland, and the Third Reich’s eventual 1939 blitzkrieg. Hitler’s final act was to manufacture a "deliberate and cold-blooded provocation", to be blamed on the Poles, which would bring down the vengeance of German armed forces.

He accomplished this by putting drugged prisoners from a nearby concentration camp into Polish uniforms and shooting them near a radio station inside the German border. The "Polish attack on the Gleiwitz transmitter" marked the official start of World War Two."

In Hitler’s words, "I shall give the propagandist cause for starting the war. Never mind if it is implausible or not."

In reality, the source of the IED technology being utilized by the insurgents goes back to the British security services, from whom it was acquired by the IRA and then sold around the world in the early nineties.

Chris Floyd sheds light on this, "Make no mistake: this is the marker that has now been put down; this is the card that's been laid on the table. The Bush Administration has openly accused Iran of killing American soldiers in Iraq. Again, this is a charge far more resonant, far more effective as a pretext for war than anything offered during the successful stampede to invade Iraq. Even a president as weakened and isolated as Bush is at the moment would be able to get support for an attack on a state that was "killing our soldiers in the field."

Confirmation has ben obtained, that the American raid on the Iranian liaison office in Irbil, Iraq, which resulted in the arrest and detention of five Iranians, was directly authorized by the White House in an attempt to provoke an Iranian response.


Sources:
1. George Washington University's, National Security Arhives, LBJ Presidential Tapes:
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident

2. The London Telegraph's, NSA Faked Intelligence:
London Telegraph/Francis Harris November 1 2005


Related Reading Material:
1. LBJ admitted in secret tape that Gulf of Tonkin Incident never happened

2. 30-year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War