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jps

On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:35:00 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:47:16 -0700, jps wrote:

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:05:41 -0400, wrote:

I agree Iraq was stupid but it wasn't toying with thermonuclear war.

Your point being?
You made one of those false equivalencies.

What was false about it? Bush wanted to measure dicks with Saddam.

The worst thing that could happen Iraq happened and most of the world
was unchanged. If the Cuban missile Crisis had a tiny little glitch,
western civilization could have been set back to the dark ages.

At least Bush can say he toppled a dictator. JFK didn't accomplish a
thing, in Cuba or the USSR. It was all for nothing.
The Cuban dictator is still there 50 years later.The Soviet
dictatorship lasted 36 more years and it is easy to say Russia is
still a virtual dictatorship. (unless you really believe Putin can be
tossed out in an election)

We didn't invade Cuba, commit a trillion dollars and 5000 lives.

I prefer Kennedy's outcome.