Many analysts now question whether Iraqi tanks were ever poised to roll into Saudi Arabia. Historians may someday compare this claim to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a clash between U.S. destroyers and Vietnamese torpedo boats was apparently blown out of proportion by President Johnson in order to gain congressional authority to expand the Vietnam War.

Authors

• Person: Douglas Kellner Organization: UCLA
  The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ...

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• The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ... pages.gseis.ucla.edu Douglas Kellner · UCLA via serper

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• Saudi Arabia location
• Vietnam War event