JENERALI: Remember the Gulf of Tonkin and don’t believe the American lies about Iran

US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC on June 25, 2019. The Washington Post has tallied more than 10,000 lies for just the three years President Donald Trump has been in office. PHOTO | MANDEL NGAN | AFP

We are back in 1964, and Uncle Sam is playing the same old game of deceit and outright lies in order to justify a premeditated military agenda.

In the summer of that year, the Americans were playing war games off the Vietnamese coast, harassing North Vietnamese boats in Tonkin Gulf and teasing Hanoi’s radar systems with mock attacks to make them reveal their placements for the purposes of a future confrontation.