August 7-Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Love canal, & Gulf War I

[underpants]

August 7
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school



1960: Fidel Castro announces plans to nationalize all U.S. holdings in Cuba. U.S. takes the moral high ground, begins its non-stop campaign to assassinate him.

1964: After a reported U.S. confrontation with North Vietnamese forces that, it was later discovered, never occurred, Congress nearly unanimously passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the President to use "all necessary steps" to "win" the war in Vietnam.

1968: Republican Convention is held in Miami. Two days of rioting in the black sections of the city ensue, leaving three dead.

1978: Love Canal, near Niagara Falls, New York, declared toxic disaster area.

1990: President George H.W. Bush (and former CIA head) orders deployment of U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.


http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17393#1

[chelsea0011]

1. Gulf of Tokin was a lie and as I check out your list of things we

don't need to learn, I wonder if WMD will be treated like Gulf of Tonkin. A lie we never need to teach.

[bluerum]

2. Riots over the Repukian convention - LOVE the idea.