Thread: Iran: Bush's Tonkin Gulf Tale Unravels

Iran: Bush's Tonkin Gulf Tale Unravels

By Gareth Porter, IPS News
Posted on January 11, 2008, Printed on January 11, 2008

Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea," new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.
The new information that appears to contradict the original version of the incident includes the revelation that U.S. officials spliced the audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a U.S. warship, as appears to do on the video.
Also unraveling the story is testimony from a former U.S. naval officer that non-official chatter is common on the channel used to communicate with the Iranian boats and testimony from the commander of the U.S. 5th fleet that the commanding officers of the U.S. warships involved in the incident never felt the need to warn the Iranians of a possible use of force against them.

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It appears that the Boosh propaganda machine has lost its allies within the armed forces. Can't wait to see these jokers gone.

See? Ron Paul was right, yes?

I put this on another thread, I was debating doing a thread on it's own. I am glad that you did cueca100, your title is spot on! People need to see this for themselves, to see the blatant lies that we live with daily, to see the lies before a war breaks out over a non incident. Green your way cometh!

I love how they were wearing life vests in the pictures, just in case they fall out of the boat before they blow themselves up. Besides aren't we in their waters anyway?