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In reply to the discussion: The truth about the Civil War's cause in 2 sentences and relating it to today's political landscape [View all]Botany
(70,627 posts)10. And to this day I think JFK was killed because by 1963 he had come to the conclusion that ...
... there was no winning to be had in Vietnam and had ordered to start pulling our troops out.
Kennedy was no dummy and even though the pentagon and the CIA kept telling him about all
the V.C. and N.V.A. troops that were being killed but President kept wondering why the communist
forces kept growing. Vietnam was a huge "cash cow" for the very thing that President Eisenhower
had warned us about, "the military industrial complex."
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The truth about the Civil War's cause in 2 sentences and relating it to today's political landscape [View all]
AZLD4Candidate
Nov 2022
OP
Whole lot of bullshit coming...that needs to be detected and avoided...Social media...detect and avoid!
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2022
#1
Tik Tok is the same, only worse, because all info goes to a server in China, so they can interject
AZLD4Candidate
Nov 2022
#2
And both the rich slave owners and the poor cannon foder believed "Christian" leaders starting ...
Botany
Nov 2022
#4
As was the First World War and a a few others before and since...also owners of big media, so
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2022
#7
And to this day I think JFK was killed because by 1963 he had come to the conclusion that ...
Botany
Nov 2022
#10
I definitely think Civil Rights had a Major, if not The Major cause of...
electric_blue68
Nov 2022
#35
Teachers are being muzzled by parents and school boards for this very reason.
lindysalsagal
Nov 2022
#11
Yes, and during the Cold War they told us the Russians were coming to take our food
bucolic_frolic
Nov 2022
#16
Er... Hitler was waging an Authoritarian, Anti-Semetic, Anti other vunerable populations...
electric_blue68
Nov 2022
#34