From Infidel753:
The Trump administration today announced that it blamed Iran for attacks on two tanker ships in the Gulf of Oman. The Iranian regime has categorically denied being involved. This follows a case last month in which four ships were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, which the US government also blamed on Iran. This follows a long-standing pattern of escalating saber-rattling by the Trump administration against Iran, beginning with Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement negotiated by Presidents Obama and Rouhani, despite the fact that international observers agreed that Iran was adhering to its side of the deal.
It may be of some value here to recall the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which led to substantial escalation of US involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Official reports at the time claimed that several North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked the American destroyer USS Maddox “on the high seas”, followed a few days later by a second attack on the Maddox and another US ship. As we now know, the Maddox had in fact opened fire first, and the clash happened within the 12-mile limit which North Vietnam claimed as its territorial waters, while the second attack never happened at all (false radar images were mistaken for enemy craft which were not actually present). Nevertheless, President Johnson and pro-war elements in his administration presented the incident to the US public as a pretext for escalating US involvement, leading to the protracted bloody mess which dragged on wearily until 1975, at staggering cost.
There is a lesson from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and from all the other lies and deceptions fed to the public during that war. It’s the same lesson offered by the official hysterics and falsified evidence which were used to whip up support for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. That lesson is: when it comes to leading this country into war, the establishment lies.
They lie. They simply lie. It’s what they do.