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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 07:33 PM

Initech (39,570 posts)

16. I wonder what this country would be like had we actually listened to Eisenhower's warning about the MIC taking over.

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47 replies	Author	Time	Post
Generals mocking JFK behind his back during Cuban Missile Crisis caught on tape... [View all]	Octafish	Sep 2012	OP
Thank you for posting this	Trailrider1951	Sep 2012	#1
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Sep 2012	#5
And big oils connections. Things do not seem to have changed much.	jwirr	Sep 2012	#9
You are most welcome, Trailrider1951! Here's the guy who should be writing the book on Gen. LeMay...	Octafish	Sep 2012	#18
kr	Norrin Radd	Sep 2012	#2
The Railroading of LCDR Terri Pike	Octafish	Oct 2012	#44
"JFK and the Unspeakable" by James Douglass should be required reading in classrooms	drokhole	Sep 2012	#3
+1 That book explains the last 49 years	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#10
JFK, FDR and 'Seven Days in May'	Octafish	Sep 2012	#13
It makes the scales fall off readers' eyes.	Octafish	Sep 2012	#19
To paraphrase one of my favorite comedians/philosophers...	drokhole	Sep 2012	#20
''It's just a ride.''	Octafish	Oct 2012	#46
^^This x 1000000000	truebrit71	Oct 2012	#47
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Sep 2012	#4
What JFK Really Said	Octafish	Sep 2012	#6
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Sep 2012	#7
Who cares? they still followed the presidents orders.	Javaman	Sep 2012	#8
yup as long as they gollow civilian command who cares	loli phabay	Sep 2012	#14
Not exactly. LeMay ordered unauthorizedoverflights of Soviet airspace during Cuban Missile Crisis...	Octafish	Sep 2012	#21
My Mother told me a long time ago when I was a kid about a guy that lived in our neighborhood	ArnoldLayne	Sep 2012	#11
Thank you for sharing that, ArnoldLayne! We're just starting to learn the story...	Octafish	Oct 2012	#41
Kevin Costner's "13 Days" was a very accurate portrayal of this...	MinM	Sep 2012	#12
13 Days (2000) v Missiles of October (1974)	MinM	Sep 2012	#17
The Twelfth Day	Octafish	Sep 2012	#24
The Fourteenth Day	MinM	Sep 2012	#34
Thank you for the heads-up, MinM! Interesting Times, indeed: ''A U-2 has been lost off Alaska.''	Octafish	Sep 2012	#22
The generals were obviously trying to provoke the Soviets into a massive retaliation!	LongTomH	Sep 2012	#25
Operation Hollywood: Pentagon v Costner	MinM	Sep 2012	#33
Mother Jones' Operation Hollywood cont...	MinM	Oct 2012	#35
World War II was so yesterday...Korea's the happening spot in 1953.	Octafish	Oct 2012	#37
Those who kept their wugs shut did all right.	Octafish	Oct 2012	#36
This message was self-deleted by its author	freshwest	Sep 2012	#15
I wonder what this country would be like had we actually listened to Eisenhower's warning about the MIC taking over.	Initech	Sep 2012	#16
War Resisters has a nice graphic...	Octafish	Oct 2012	#40
Hell, I'd be happy if someone up top actually listened to it TODAY	Blue_Tires	Oct 2012	#45
Sole Surviving Son of a US Marine present and kicking, Sir!	bobthedrummer	Sep 2012	#23
We owe our freedom to you father and all who've defended this nation...	Octafish	Oct 2012	#42
Shoup was pushing for full on nuclear war on Cuba and Le May was playing the angles either way. nt	patrice	Sep 2012	#26
Echoed by Lemnitzer and Dulles who counseled the best time for a sneak attack was 'Fall 1963.'	Octafish	Oct 2012	#43
Bunch of fuckers	gopiscrap	Sep 2012	#27
wtf with the redneck crap	loli phabay	Sep 2012	#28
they weren't in private	gopiscrap	Sep 2012	#29
yeah as far as tbey were concerned tbey were	loli phabay	Sep 2012	#30
Not surprised by that response.	Kingofalldems	Sep 2012	#31
Agreed!!!!	gopiscrap	Sep 2012	#32
In October 1962, human civilization came close to being destroyed.	MinM	Oct 2012	#38
CIA still pushing the ''Castro Knew Ahead of Time'' Lie	Octafish	Oct 2012	#39

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