Tonkin Bay II or USS Cole II?

The evidence is pointing to the former.

The Pentagon has admitted the hoax.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/tapes-to-answer-doubts-on-confrontation-with-iran/#comment-281887

"Indeed, the video and the audio were merged after the original recording, according to the Pentagon."

The audio has no ambient noise as one would expect during confrontation. Check it out for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRbYKKM5cAE

In the final years of the Cold War, the Russians and the Americans sometimes engage in games of chicken, and that is what you may be seeing here. But it may even be less than that-- a complete fabrication engineered as a prelude to the president's trip to the Middle East.

"All ships at sea use a common UHF frequency, Channel 16, also known as “bridge-to bridge” radio. Over here, near the U.S., and throughout the Mediterranean, Ch. 16 is used pretty professionally, i.e., chatter is limited to shiphandling issues, identifying yourself, telling other ships what your intentions are to avoid mishaps, etc.

"But over in the Gulf, Ch. 16 is like a bad CB radio. Everybody and their brother is on it; chattering away; hurling racial slurs, usually involving Filipinos (lots of Filipinos work in the area); curses involving your mother; 1970’s music broadcast in the wee hours (nothing odder than hearing The Carpenters 50 miles off the coast of Iran at 4 a.m.)"

I wonder who would have the most to gain by publishing this.

"As the U.S. government continues to demonstrate its inability to learn from history, an alarming report from the Strait of Hormuz was broadcast to the world on January 7. The Associated Press reported the following: "In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels." These Iranian ships are believed to part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy, the organization that the U.S. Congress officially decreed a 'terrorist' organization."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7760

If the commanding officers and entire crews of three naval vessels verify the authenticity of this incident I believe them.

If the usual suspects choose to believe the Iranians that is their choice.


(sigh)

After a century, nothing has changed. War mongers reign supreme as I hear the bleating of sheep.

1898 2008
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Well, the U.S.I. is now saying that the Iranian videotape was accurate!

So I believe BOTH the Iranians AND the Americans! It's nice to see that we all now agree.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4115702&page=1 -- US Admits Edited Tape of Iran Incident 'Flawed'

http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=12191 -- Navy's Version of Iran Incident Starts to Unravel

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23036718-5005961,00.html -- US Navy: Threat May Not Have Been Iranian

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-10-iran-us-navy_N.htm -- Iran Airs Video Showing No Standoff With US Ships

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-09-iran-us_N.htm -- Iran: US Faked Video of Gulf Incident

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12189 -- Neo-cons try to lie us into war AGAIN!

http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,159657,00.html -- U.S. "media" sensationalize a tempest in a teapot

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7755 -- Iranians said "explore", not "explode"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7177946.stm -- BBC video shows no aggressive maneuvers

It looks like you dittoheads have been CONNED yet again!