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Spider Jerusalem

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21. This is pretty nonsensical and bears no relation whatever to the historical JFK
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:55 PM
Apr 2012

the speech he gave in Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of 22 November, 1963:

In the past 3 years we have increased the defense budget of the United States by over 20 percent; increased the program of acquisition for Polaris submarines from 24 to 41; increased our Minuteman missile purchase program by more than 75 percent; doubled the number of strategic bombers and missiles on alert; doubled the number of nuclear weapons available in the strategic alert forces; increased the tactical nuclear forces deployed in Western Europe by over 60 percent; added five combat ready divisions to the Army of the United States, and five tactical fighter wings to the Air Force of the United States; increased our strategic airlift capability by 75 percent; and increased our special counterinsurgency forces which are engaged now in South Viet-Nam by 600 percent.


And JFK interview with David Brinkley of ABC News on 9 September 1963:

Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. President, have you had any reason to doubt this so-called "domino theory," that if South Viet-Nam falls, the rest of Southeast Asia will go behind it?

The PRESIDENT. No, I believe it. I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet-Nam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position for a guerrilla assault on Malaya but would also give the impression that the wave of the future in Southeast Asia was China and the Communists. So I believe it.


JFK was an ideologically committed anti-Communist who was a friend and supporter of Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, even after the latter's disgrace, and a hard-line Cold War hawk. There's nothing in his words or actions to suggest he'd any intention of "ending the military-industrail complex".
politicians are "paid" to promote and increase the power of the MIC. end of discussion nt msongs Apr 2012 #1
Money elleng Apr 2012 #2
BINGO! newfie11 Apr 2012 #10
Somebody did guitar man Apr 2012 #3
JFK RobertEarl Apr 2012 #5
I agree. JFK was assassinated for his efforts at world peace... Peace Patriot Apr 2012 #7
Like most JFK conspiracy theorists, you fail to link any of this to the actual assassination RZM Apr 2012 #9
If you haven't read the Douglass book, which documents hifiguy Apr 2012 #17
James Douglass does all the linking necessary in his exhaustively researched book. Peace Patriot Apr 2012 #22
I'll admit it does look like a book worth checking out RZM Apr 2012 #23
This is pretty nonsensical and bears no relation whatever to the historical JFK Spider Jerusalem Apr 2012 #21
You have it in one. hifiguy Apr 2012 #16
GREED...comes to mind. Historic NY Apr 2012 #4
Why in the world do we have almost 3 million active and reserve troops. Laura PourMeADrink Apr 2012 #6
Hard to teach a politician when a politician's cash depends on him not learning anything. Selatius Apr 2012 #8
I also believe that ending private campaign money is necessary to make any considerable changes FlaGatorJD Apr 2012 #14
Because we don't learn from the past. cali Apr 2012 #11
The corporatocracy didn't see it as a warning - they saw it as a business opportunity. baldguy Apr 2012 #12
The warning was probably a few decades too late to heed The2ndWheel Apr 2012 #13
Warmongers make mo money. lonestarnot Apr 2012 #15
Couldn't have said it any better than that FlaGatorJD Apr 2012 #18
'Cuz: $ $ $. Arugula Latte Apr 2012 #19
Ike would be considered too liberal Golden Raisin Apr 2012 #20
What about Eisenhower's own involvement with the coups in Guatemala and Iran? DutchLiberal Apr 2012 #24
Sadly, It's Quite the Opposite smoking357 Apr 2012 #25
Bingo! marble falls Feb 2015 #27
Military Industrial Complex 1maddd2mackxxx Feb 2015 #26
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