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Old May 14th, 2007, 04:45 PM
drewberry drewberry is offline
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The movie 13 Days is history all over again.

THIRTEEN DAYS is the story of the Cuban Missile crisis from the point of view of Presidential advisor Kenneth O'Donnell. The Chiefs of Staff were anxious to take on the Soviets in a war they assumed they could limit. The Soviets also have their own divisions in policy with hawks and doves in the Politburo. The film exposes the bitter rivalry between those who want military solutions and those who want diplomatic ones with John Kennedy being indecisive between them, because he was haunted by his reading of Barbara Tuchman's THE GUNS OF AUGUST, an account of how both sides behaving in what at the time appeared logical ways inexorably descended into the First World War. Kennedy understood the fact that it could have happened with nuclear missiles, this time.Unfortunately, unlike the men who averted nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the zealots who started the Iraq war have no sense of history, and the invasion has predictably descended into what historian, David Halberstam predicted, and you can read about that here:http://surftofind.com/warWhen you thoroughly examine all the evidence, especially what David Halberstam said about the war in Iraq and the book he was planning to write, it is sadly not possible to avoid the conclusion that, like John F. Kennedy before him, David Halberstam is a victim of domestic, cold war politics.The timely death of David Halberstam is being called an accident, but history strongly suggests otherwise.Murder is not a spontaneous act. Murder is a premeditated act of violence which is cloaked and disguised in alternative explanations like "auto accident" in order to evade accountability. Like John F. Kennedy before him, David Halberstam is a victim of domestic cold war politics and this time, the murderers should not get away with it.http://surftofind.com/lawyer
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Old May 14th, 2007, 06:23 PM
Max Sinister Max Sinister is offline
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Hi drewberry, welcome to the forum.

Just two things:
1. This sounds pretty much like a consoiracy theory. does it have substance?

2. Your text would be easier to read with paragraphs.
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