I don't believe it til I see some photos of wreckage, or see a list of verifiable KIAs go out. In layman's terms, "pics or it didn't happen." Amerika's got too long a history of bullshitting atrocity for war for me to hand out my credulity that way.
I, too, remember the Maine.
"We'll blame the Maine on Spain."
Not sure if it happened, but if it did happen, the USA deserves it.
Totally normal that a US destroyer is stationed there. Totally normal.
lol, in the finest American tradition:
"Everything is quiet. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish to return." To which Hearst's alleged reply was: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
An investigation in 1974, reached the opposite conclusion, that the explosion had originated inside the ship.