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Facts forgotten in Tonkin Gulf.(LETTERS)
The Washington Times
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February 15, 2004
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Arnaud de Borchgrave's statement that "North Vietnamese gunboats did not attack U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin" ("Iraq and the Gulf of Tonkin," Commentary, Tuesday) is the latest in a series of misstatements of fact about the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident that have appeared in newspaper commentary since the debate began about going to war in Iraq. The record screams to be set straight.
On Aug. 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was indeed attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. As pointed out by Edwin E. Moise in ...
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