Reply #17: Ummmm...horseshit, yet again...

[T Town Jake]

"JFK was furious when he heard that the Diem brothers had been assassinated"

Funny, there is a recorded conversation JFK dictated to himself about the assassination of Diem in early November, 1963. He sounds stunned, not angry.

While we're on the subject, you do realize that Diem was assassinated just 21 days before President Kennedy was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, not "two months" prior to that event, don't you? Don't you?...

"He ordered the withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam"

Nope. He did nothing of the sort. There were 20,000 "advisor's" in Vietnam in November of 1963, and 1,000 of them were scheduled to return to CONUS by the end of December. This is the extent of the much-vaunted "withdrawal" many conspiracy-theorists fantasize about and often tout as "proof" of this or that - but such "proof," as genuine "proof," doesn't amount to much, and is meaningless. No such large-scale "withdrawal" was even remotely contemplated by the Kennedy administration. Indeed, in September of that very year, JFK gave an interview to Walter Cronkite of CBS news (surely you've heard of him?) in which he publicly stated that he believed that to withdraw from Vietnam would be, and we're quoting here, "a mistake...a great mistake."

For Christ's sake, can't you :tinfoilhat: types come up with some new material? Something that would make it a bit harder to discredit your wispy historical fantasies?