On Aug 26, 3:10*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 26, 3:01*pm, "nom=de=plume" wrote:



Nope... Eisenhower. Read it and weep...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/jupiter.htm

"Frogwatch" wrote in message

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Jack Kennedy CAUSED the Cuban missile crisis by putting Jupiter
missiles in Turkey less than 100 miles from the Soviet Union. *Anybody
with more than 2 neurons would have expected the Soviets to respond in
kind. *Guess what, the agreement for resolving the crisis was that the
Soviets remove their missiles AND the USA would remove the missiles
from Turkey. *I'd say Krushev was the hero in that Crisis by backing
down. *I hate thinking good of the Soviets but in that case they were
right.
And the Bay of Pigs, what kind of moron would agree to such a thing
AND then not support it once it was going? *Pure Kennedy cowardice.

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Nom=de=Plume

The President is Commander in Chief, those missiles in Turkey need
never have been deployed. *Kennedy could have stopped it at any time
but he stupidly went along with it due to his own "missile gap"
rhetoric in the 1960 campaign

yeah just like clinton could have stopped NAFTA...it had been
negotiated for years by bush. if he'd backed out the US would have
lost credibility..

IOW you don't know ****

So, Kennedy caused the Cuban Missile Crisis because he HAD NO COJONES
to stand up to Lemay. *Seriously, the cowardice of Kennedy nearly
caused a nuke war. *The only person who actually will look good to
historians in this will be Krushev.

if kennedy was a coward there would be nukes in cuba today

IOW you don't know ****