Posted on 07/20/2009 1:03:11 PM PDT by joey703
Here I was in a rather small capital of Northern Ireland, which is still and probably always will be a part of the United Kingdom --an opinion of which I don't have. But anyways, it's a city hall! And, on the grounds of this city hall (it's a small city with a population of some 267,500 according to the NISRA), there's a memorial that dedicates the lives of those that fought and died in Korea nearly sixty years ago.
All because of the words of one man -- Harry Truman (who single handedly decided to intervene in the Korean War; again, I can't remember where I read it, but there was a declassified CIA document that an article cited that even had if Soviet spies had access to all CIA information at the time, they would've discovered that nobody in the CIA establishment would've believed the U.S. would fight a war in Korea). So, it was basically Harry Truman, who singlehandley decided that there would be this memorial to the dead on the grounds of a city hall in Belfast!
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I liked Harry Truman , He was a great President. Too bad he didnt decide to win the Korean War.
I wasn’t alive back then; But, I agree. Looking back, too bad it wasn’t a MacArthur, but an Eisenhower who became president.
Eisenhower as no great shakes as a President, but MacArthur would ahve been terrible I believe.
I don’t think so. I think China would not be communist and Korea would not be divided.
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