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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Lie</strong>” 9/<strong>11</strong> <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Government</strong>’s<br />

<strong>Complicity</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Mass</strong> <strong>Murder</strong><br />

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his desperately under-provisioned troops from his w<strong>in</strong>ter encampment at Valley<br />

Forge. He lambasted <strong>and</strong> condemned the Cont<strong>in</strong>ental Congress for their thrifty<br />

<strong>and</strong> laissez-faire attitude towards fight<strong>in</strong>g the conflict. Was he a traitor? Was he<br />

anti-patriotic? Did he aggravate the already hungry <strong>and</strong> demoralized troops<br />

under his comm<strong>and</strong> by his exhortations <strong>and</strong> admonishments to the warmly<br />

housed <strong>and</strong> well-fed politician’s content to let others do the fight<strong>in</strong>g with little or<br />

no compensation <strong>and</strong> poor lack of provision? No, of course he did not.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Gulf of Tonk<strong>in</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Vietnam War.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Gulf of Tonk<strong>in</strong> Resolution was a product of<br />

another series of U.S. provocations <strong>and</strong><br />

deliberate deceptions. On August 2, 1964 U.S.<br />

naval forces were perform<strong>in</strong>g aggressive jo<strong>in</strong>t<br />

CIA <strong>and</strong> South Vietnamese surveillance <strong>and</strong><br />

covert hit-<strong>and</strong>-run guerilla military operations,<br />

(such as bomb<strong>in</strong>g radar <strong>in</strong>stallations <strong>and</strong> bridges aga<strong>in</strong>st North Vietnam under<br />

the auspices of Operation Plan 34A), when they were <strong>in</strong>tercepted <strong>and</strong> attacked by<br />

North Vietnamese patrol boats. <strong>The</strong> capta<strong>in</strong> of the destroyer/surveillance ship<br />

USS Maddox, John J. Herrick, <strong>in</strong>dicated that he believed his ship was an active<br />

participant <strong>in</strong> the covert 34A operations. 23 <strong>The</strong> response from North Vietnam on<br />

August 2nd was far from an unprovoked attack, nor unexpected for attacks that<br />

could be argued already were acts of war by the United States, <strong>and</strong> without the<br />

knowledge <strong>and</strong> consent of the Congress. Johnson also acknowledged the covert<br />

operations aga<strong>in</strong>st North Vietnam when he stated: “<strong>The</strong>re have been some covert<br />

operations <strong>in</strong> that (Tonk<strong>in</strong> Gulf) area that we have been carry<strong>in</strong>g on - blow<strong>in</strong>g up<br />

some bridges <strong>and</strong> th<strong>in</strong>gs of that k<strong>in</strong>d, roads <strong>and</strong> so forth. So I imag<strong>in</strong>e (the North<br />

Vietnamese) wanted to put a stop to it.” 24<br />

Additionally, further substantive <strong>and</strong> credible evidence exists that the “attacks” of<br />

August 4th on the Maddox were either faked, non-existent, or overexaggerated.<br />

25 Archived audio tapes released by the Johnson Presidential Library<br />

call <strong>in</strong>to question the veracity of the claims that North Vietnamese ever attacked

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