Hey. Kennedy was elected in 1960, right? He deployed these offensive missiles. Fuck up, #1.
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The U.S. and Turkey concluded an agreement to deploy one Jupiter squadron on NATO's southern flank. One squadron totaling 15 missiles was deployed at five sites near
İzmir, Turkey from 1961 to 1963,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter
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Oh, you think Che was a Nazi. There is your problem. I'm a Che-ist, sort of the opposite of right wing. And I see Liberals as right wing establishment. The missiles, we moved there as a provocation. An undefended 1st strike on Moscow. We refused to removed them. Your press hack cover stories about age of the system are meaningless.
These were close deployed, heavy throw weight, tactical, not strategic, 1st Strike Offensive weapons. But, the deal was we dismantled over "agedness" 6 months after Kennedy was allowed to win the CMC, in the Press story.
What the Press really never talks about even after 50 years, is the fact that there were atomic tipped cruise missiles that had no fancy permissive links. Oh, sure, there were vertical lanuchers on land, as well, plus Soviet subs, at All Weapons Free, Status.
Only after many years was this even made public. I was at Tyndall AFB in FL and was within the range of all that.
So, the Bear got him, not the other way. In fact they got us so bad, they decided to back off and the K man was to much a firebrand with the shoe pound and the shouting and the sweating. He was, quite unusually, allowed to retire, without the 9 ounce Solution. (your buddy gets you drunk and shoots you in the back of the head and you never know it)
Well, what did Kennedy do in his short term?
- sucked us into Viet Nam to rescue French honor.
- Abandoned the Bay of Pigs fighters, He SENT, to be massacred.
- Failed to come to scratch with Khrushchev and looked dangerously stupid, at every turn
- backed down on the Jupiter base in Turkey, and lied about it
- bent organized crime, pals with the CIA since WW2, into a death wish for the Attorney General, Bobby.
- put a new meaning on "secretarial pool" and "cheating in the home."
- almost got me nuked
In other words, this green Senator who got a perfectly good PT-109, run down and splintered by an enemy Destroyer, is no war hero. Just a John McCain type, who got his perfectly good plane shot down for no reason, out of his AO, etc, but from a family with some pull.
He was a fuck up going in and a fuck up he remained and I don't know who killed them or if it was justified. I am just very glad it happened...to both,. and they should have gotten the Chappaquiddick calloused murderer, Ted, at the same time.
Jerks and Royalists. Camelot? Phhhhtt...feather-sacks!