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On 10/22/11 10:41 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:21:27 -0700, wrote:

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.

The outcome was we caved in to the Soviet demands. We could have done
that without all the risk of WWIII. It was a stupid gamble that he
just got lucky on, but JFK had a history of stupid gambles. Some
didn't come out as well.
The whole Cuban debacle that we are still mired in, started with JFK.

The outcome was that Russia packed up its nuclear missiles and took them
home.
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The whole thing was initiated by the attempt to overthrow Castro in the Bay
of Pigs fiasco.
The idea originated in the latter months of Eisenhower's administration but
was approved
for execution by Kennedy. Using the Bay of Pigs as a reason, Castro warmed
up to the
Soviet Union for security, which led to the Missile Crisis. The Soviets
removed the Cuban
based missiles because Kennedy agreed to remove ours from certain bases in
Europe.

Nobody "won".

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