JFK Conference: James DiEugenio made clear how Foreign Policy changed after November 22, 1963

[Mc Mike]

187. 'Cold Warrior' means different things for different people.

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For me, it means the people above Eisenhower who planned the Bay of Pigs and lied to Kennedy about the Cuban population's mass desire to rise up in support of the few Batista Cuban attackers. It means the guy who the repugs ran on a platform of 'dropping the nuclear bomb' in '64, it means Nixon's Christmas bombing of a children's hospital, it means Bircher general Ed Walker proselytizing US troops in Germany with pro-nazi ideas. Officially, Oswald tried to kill Walker, but that story if true just proved he couldn't hit a still target that was back lit, let alone a moving one from a greater distance.

If by calling Kennedy a 'cold warrior' you mean he wasn't a lily-livered treasonous appeaser of the communists, then I agree with you that the repugs lying charges of such were incorrect. If you mean he was the same as those repug 'cold warriors', then I (and all those repugs) disagree with you. A lot of people who disagree with you calling Kennedy a cold warrior connect the term with Attilah the hun style fascists, and you quite possibly have a quite different definition in mind.

The link of Octa's which I referred to had quite a bit of credible reporting that suggests your interpretation of Kennedy's 'responsibility' for the Viet coup is more in line with Kennedy's 'responsibility' for the several attempts on DeGaulle's life, which traced back to the CIA.

Re Hunt, your acceptance of the HSCA is selective, because they say there was a conspiracy, possibly involving intel people, Batista cubans, organized crime figures, far right wingers. Also, Richard Sprague was chief counsel for the HSCA before he was replaced by Blakely, and he was the first person to identify Hunt as the boxcar tramp. A J Weberman and Dick Gregory also identified Hunt as one of the tramps. To adhere to the lone nut theory, you have to believe some parts of the HSCA and not others, you have to find some members of the HSCA credible and not others. All I have to do is see the inconsistencies in the official story to know it stinks to high heaven.