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>> this is a special report from cbs news in washington. today just past the midday point, unofficial sources started to report additional naval combat action in the same tonkin gulf. >> now i would like to review briefly in chronological order, the unprovoked attacks that took place today, august 4th. >> we know now for sure the second tonkin gulf incident didnt happen. but the johnson administration pretty much dismissed evidence indicating that an attack actually hadnt taken place. >> there w...

Cbs news in washington. today just past the midday point, unofficial sources started to report additional naval combat action in the same tonkin gulf. >> now i would like to review briefly in chronological order, the unprovoked attacks that took place today, august 4th. >> we know now for sure the second tonkin gulf accident didnt happen. the johnson administration dismissed evidence indicating that an attack actually hadnt taken place. there was this acute political pressure from the right wing...

>> certainly, i think a more prudent administration that wasnt looking for a pretext to flex some american muscle would have stepped back and said, lets determine what actually happened here before we launch an retaliation. >> my fellow americans, hostile actions against united states ships on the high seas have today required me to order the military forces of the united states to take action in reply. >> that was the beginning of the american air assault on north vietnam. >> president johnson ...

Point, unofficial sources started to report additional naval combat action in the same tonkin gulf. >> now i would like to review briefly in chronological order, the unprovoked attacks that took place today, august 4th. >> we know now for sure the second tonkin gulf incident didnt happen. but the johnson administration pretty much dismissed evidence indicating that an attack actually hadnt taken place. >> there was this acute political pressure from the right wing to be strong, stand up to commu...

Started to report additional naval combat action in the same tonkin gulf. >> now i would like to review briefly in chronological order, the unprovoked attacks that took place today, august 4th. >> we know now for sure the second tonkin gulf incident didnt happen. but the johnson administration pretty much dismissed evidence indicating that an attack actually hadnt taken place. >> there was this acute political pressure from the right wing to be strong, stand up to communist aggression. >> certai...

>> there was this acute political pressure from the right wing to be strong, stand up to communist aggression. >> certainly, i think a more prudent administration that wasnt looking for a pretext to flex some american muscle would have stepped back and said, lets determine what actually happened here before we launch an retaliation. >> my fellow americans, hostile actions against united states ships on the high seas have today required me to order the military forces of the united states to take...

>> there was this acute political pressure from the right wing to be strong, stand up to communist aggression. >> certainly, i think a more prudent administration that wasnt looking for a pretext to flex some american muscle would have stepped back and said, lets determine what actually happened here before we launch an retaliation. >> my fellow americans, hostile actions against united states ships on the high seas have today required me to order the military forces of the united states to take...

Prudent administration that wasnt looking for a pretext to flex some american muscle would have stepped back and said, lets determine what actually happened here before we launch an retaliation. >> my fellow americans, hostile actions against ships on the high seas have today required me to order the military forces of the united states to take action in reply. >> that was the beginning of the american air assault on north vietnam. >> president johnson has asked for and will soon get a congressi...

Get that agreement that the country is fragmenting and already the kurds could be using as a pretext to leave and we could be headed to a sectarian conflict that could not be solved easily. >> you were in charge of advising secretary of state hillary clinton on counterterrorism. how grave a threat do you think isis is not to iraq, but to the united states? at the moment its not a very big threat to the united states. what is a threat is that we are seeing the creation of a durable safe haven for...

Being very shrewd and smart about this. kurds have got their eye on the future. >> the sunnies understand that thats why isis has allies from the tribal and militia forces in the sunni territories. but that alliance isnt necessarily going to last. >> fatal not to negotiate something, a status of forces agreement that would have let us stay a little bit longer? i realize george w. bush sent the first one in but president obama didnt seek to extend it or get some certain deal. >> he wanted out. th...