IT IS US A s HABIT SO MANY RECURRENTLY EXPECTED REPEATED TACTICS OF U S AND COPIED BY ISRAEL IS GENOCIDE IS PRECEDED BY PLANNING TO PIN THE BLAME ON THE VICTIMS BY MANUFACTURING PRETEXT AS JUSTIFICATION OF THE ACTION DONT BLAME I WAS DEFENDING OR ON THE CONTRAY HE WAS OPPRESSING nedles to say HYPOCRICY e.g. 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft, which was followed by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the U.S. president authorization to increase U.S. military presence. Regular U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations crossed international borders: bordering areas of Laos and Cambodia were heavily bombed by U.S. forces as American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, the same year that the communist side launched the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive failed in its goal of overthrowing the South Vietnamese government but became the turning point in the war, as it persuaded a large segment of the United States population that its governments claims of progress toward winning the war were illusory despite many years of massive U.S. military aid to South Vietnam. Disillusionment with the war by the U.S. led to the gradual withdrawal of U.S. ground forces as part of a policy known as Vietnamization, which aimed to end American involvement in the war while transferring the task of fighting the Communists to the South Vietnamese themselves. Despite the Paris Peace Accord, which was signed by all parties in January 1973, the fighting continued. In the U.S. and the Western world, a large anti-Vietnam War movement developed. This movement was part of a larger Counterculture of the 1960s. Direct U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress.[40] The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese service members and civilians killed vary from 800,000[41] to 3.1 million.[24][42][43] Some 200,000–300,000 Cambodians,[29][30][31] 20,000–200,000 Laotians,[44][45][46][47][48][49] and 58,220 U.S. service members also died.
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