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Gulf of Tonkin Incident still debated 40 years later; comparisons made to Iraq
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MARGIE MASON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-06-2004
Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam
Forty years ago Saturday, the U.S. Congress gave President Lyndon B. Johnson a green light to escalate the war in Vietnam based on now-disputed accounts of attacks by North Vietnamese boats on U.S. destroyers _ a decision some compare to its recent approval of the invasion of Iraq.
Some argue Johnson and Congress acted hastily based on limited or misleading information about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, a question that continues to be debated today.
Johnson told Americans that on Aug. 2 and ...
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