John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JEFF SCHOGOL IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“The Top US Military Officer: We’ll Provide Evidence of an Imminent Iranian Attack One Day”
https://www.anti-empire.com/the-top-us-military-officer-well-provide-evidence-of-an-imminent-iranian-attack-one-day/
All of the Pentagon and White House people just keep talking in circles, and that's because what they are claiming is nonsense.
We indeed know what Iran’s General Soleimani was doing, and it was something entirely different than Trump's blubbering claims about planning attacks.
He was dealing with Iran's response to a proposal from Saudi Arabia concerned with de-escalating their relations. He was even travelling on a diplomatic passport.
It was virtually the opposite kind of activity the White House claims.
Washington has never gotten away from the Gulf of Tonkin Incident kind of thinking in all its ugly imperial affairs abroad.
For those who don't recall, a phantom hostile incident in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam became the basis for Lyndon Johnson's starting the massive American holocaust in Vietnam, a war in which America killed an estimated 3 million people, many of them in the most horrible fashion.
