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To: ncountylee

The only item on the whole list that belongs there is item #8, the Bay of Pigs.

Eisenhower warned Kennedy either to call off the Cuban invasion or to go in determined to win it. He did neither.

The rest of these items are all arguable. And none of them are in a class with Carter's Panama Canal decision or--even worse, in my view--Carter's decision to support replacing the Shah of Iran with the Ayatollahs.

I don't seem to see Truman's decision here to let the Communists take over China, either.

And stupid as the Monica business was, clinton's decision to back the Muslims in Yugoslavia was much, much worse. As was his decision to give the Communist Chinese full information about MIRVed ICBMs and nuclear warheads in exchange for a few million dollars in campaign contributions.


48 posted on 02/18/2006 1:01:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Where did you see that Ike had advised JFK on the Bay of Pigs?


165 posted on 02/18/2006 8:52:16 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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