BS Summary: This video contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Hindsight Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 40.4% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 912 faulty-reasoning hits from 265 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82% and a BS Rank of 92% (2,252 of 25,563 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.20% of the video peer group.
[music] August 2nd, 1964, the Pentagon reports the first of two attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkan.
Days later, President Lyndon Johnson orders the first bombing raids on North Vietnamese military installations.
>> We still seek no wider war. Congress swiftly approves broad powers to Johnson to escalate America's military involvement in Vietnam.
A National Security Agency analysis released in 2005 contends the second attack in the Tonkan Gulf never happened. 1990 in the Persian Gulf, Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait.
The following year, an American war known as Operation Desert Storm drives Saddam Hussein's forces out of the oil rich emirate. A US-led invasion of Iraq in the following decade topples Saddam from power. 1943.
During World War II, a Japanese destroyer sinks a US Navy torpedo boat commanded by future President John F. Kennedy.
Two on board the PT 109 are killed when the destroyer rams and cuts then Lieutenant Kennedy's boat in two off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
Kennedy and the vessel's other survivors cling to the wreckage and swim to a nearby island where they are rescued. 1923
>> America's present need is not heroic but healing not but normaly
>> President Warren G Harding dies in San Francisco at age 57 Vice President Calvin Kulage succeeds him in the White House and 1876 frontiersman while Bill Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood Dakota territory what's now South Dakota today in history August 2nd Camille Bohan and The Associated Press.
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