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Originally Posted by SoCalBronco
Ofcourse it was a covert action...yet that hardly makes it illegal, even without the declaration of a war.
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Wrong. It was illegal according to the Constitution.
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Originally Posted by SoCalBronco
The language of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution gave the President wide authority not just in Vietnam, but in Southeast Asia. Considering the communists were using bases in Cambodia to launch campaigns and then to retreat back across the border, I have no problem with the US attacking them there in 1970 to try and clear it out, especially given that we had been given the OK by the sovereign at the time.
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To try and use the resolution of a False Flag event to justify the murder of over 600,000 people is pretty low, even for a slimeball from the Rockefeller wing.