To: 2ndDivisionVet
And while Kennedy's inexperience fortunately did not result in a nuclear war, it did lead us to the brink of nuclear war In addition, this comment is really stupid. Kennedy did not tell the Soviets to install nuclear weapons in Cuba. He was faced with this threat *after* they were discovered. Kennedy was the President that oversaw the removal of those weapons.
The fact is, we can all thank God the Soviets did not believe Kennedy was weak and just playing tough. If that were the case, there would be damn good chance that both of us would not be alive.
30 posted on
10/20/2008 9:18:40 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(We witnessed the biggest expansion of government in American history)
To: dragnet2
Kennedy had a few useful chips to play in this poker game. He agreed privately to remove the missiles he inserted publicly along the Soviet borders. But lest we forget, John Kennedy was in a very different democrat party, a 'tax cuts increase revenues for the federal coffers' style democrta party. The current democrat party is following the directives of environmental activist maniacs, the ‘America is the world's greatest threat’ crowd, and the ‘we must capitulate and be infinitely tolerant of Islam in order to have friends in the world community’ mob.
50 posted on
10/21/2008 9:36:00 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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