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Remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident?  (aka, Vietnam’s WMD)  Yeah…didn’t happen.

But he said that probably the “most historically significant feature” of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.

That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to president Lyndon Johnson’s sharp escalation of American forces in Vietnam.

The author of the report “demonstrates that not only is it not true, as (then US) secretary of defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was ‘unimpeachable,’ but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that ‘no attack happened that night,’” FAS said in a statement.

“What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack. It’s a dramatic reversal of the historical record,” Aftergood said.

So, I’m sure it shouldn’t bother me when this happens, right?

Iran called video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats confronting the warships as “fabricated,” a state-run television station reported.

“The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated,” the English-language channel Press TV quoted an official in the Revolutionary Guards as saying.