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User, We all lose when our gov't manipulates our thinking and then sends us the bill for their mis-adventures. The Gulf of Tonkin incident that was used to engage us in Vietnam is another example. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but eventually became very controversial with widespread claims that either one or both incidents were false, and possibly deliberately so. The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying US conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident