Originally posted by RTStabler51:
I was listening to some Malek (one of Farrahakan's cronies) guy yesterday on Hannity's talk show about how the US Government blew up the Maine, a ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, and now the levee's.





Maybe Malek should be informed that the USS Maine was blown up in Havana harbor in 1898 (starting the Spanish-American War), and the event in the Gulf of Tonkin happened in 1964 and involved ships of the 7th fleet including the USS Maddox and the USS Ticongeroga. No American ships were sunk, or indeed even hit with anything. The skipper of the Maddox thought he was being fired upon and decided to fire back at what he thought were attackers. To this day, Vietnamese officials are clueless as to who attacked the American ships, if anyone did. There was also no evidence afterwards that the Maddox was actually fired upon.

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