Gulf of Tonkin

The Swill from Bill

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bosnia, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, Clinton Bosnia Trip, Lbj, Clinton Bosnia, Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia, Politics News
Andrew Gumbel

The subtext I hear from him is this: I'm Bill Clinton, so you have to take whatever I tell you, and by the way you've got to vote for my wife, out of fear if not out of respect.

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Unfit For Democratic Leadership (According To You-Know-Who)

Martin Lewis | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Holier-Than-Thou, William Fulbright, Edmund Muskie, Ted Kennedy, George Mcgovern, Hubert Humphrey, Political Puritanism, Eugene McCarthy, Gulf of Tonkin, Disproportionate Focus, Mike Mansfield, Mo Udall, Misplaced Emphasis, Selective Persecution, Single Issue Politics, Tip O'Neill, Politics News
Martin Lewis

• Senator Ted Kennedy (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1980) • Senator Gene McCarthy (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1968) • Senator Hube...

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The Cheneyites Nearly Started WWIII Over "Filipino Monkey" Radio Signal

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Gulf of Tonkin, War Propaganda, Bush Administration, Strait of Hormuz, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Apparently the US Navy is operating with near zero ability to tell the difference between a radio pirate screaming profanities and a declaration of war.

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Tangled Tapes: Spliced Video Gives False View of Hormuz Incident

Joe Cirincione | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Gulf of Tonkin, Strait of Hormuz, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Both sides seemed to have released tapes edited to tell their side. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran

Gary Hart | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Gulf of Tonkin, Provoking Iran, Politics News
Gary Hart

You will surely recognize that Americans are reluctant to go to war unless attacked. For historians of American wars the question is whether we provoke provocations.

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When Generals Lie

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, Baker-Hamilton, Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq, General Petraeus, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

It took 30 years for Americans' confidence in the military to climb out of the pit it had fallen into during the Vietnam War. Will Petraeus' testimony be the tipping point that sends it back toward the cellar?

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