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12. Though perhaps getting rid of Prescott Bush could have solved two of these problems...

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:59 PM

Jun 2015

... made Hitler less of a problem without Bush's funding of his empire...

... and then we would have had less Bushes today that might have made recent history here totally different too!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Would be interesting to see how it would have affected his involvement in the attempted coup that was weeded out by Smedley Butler at the time though...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm

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If I could go back in time and kill someone [View all] Tab Jun 2015 OP

I'd go with Hitler myself. KamaAina Jun 2015 #1

Yep. Adolf is the perennial #1 in that little thought experiment/poll. hifiguy Jun 2015 #4

Thing is, if you kill Stalin, we lose WWII KamaAina Jun 2015 #8

That's why you get Hitler first. hifiguy Jun 2015 #9

Though perhaps getting rid of Prescott Bush could have solved two of these problems... cascadiance Jun 2015 #12

Hmm. I can see that any number of troublesome birds hifiguy Jun 2015 #13

But you only get one. KamaAina Jun 2015 #63

But you might not have a rich Koch family polluting our political process today! cascadiance Jun 2015 #10

If this game is going to be played, Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #14

Marshal Zhukov did pretty well as it was. hifiguy Jun 2015 #17

But then again, if Stalin had not lived, Art_from_Ark Jun 2015 #21

Very good point. hifiguy Jun 2015 #29

Or if you kill Hitler after 1941 FrodosPet Jun 2015 #39

Stalin's stupidity is the reason the Germans got to the gates of Moscow tabasco Jun 2015 #51

The tide turned after Zhukov started pursuing his own strategies hifiguy Jun 2015 #55

Bad idea Reter Jun 2015 #38

I wouldn't kill Hitler. If I could, I'd travel back in time to months before his birth . . . Journeyman Jun 2015 #54

And that Hitler would have never made it in politics. former9thward Jun 2015 #59

And you're interjecting a sense of reality into a discussion of time travel & "biological tinkering"?. . . Journeyman Jun 2015 #61

But without WWII my grandparents wouldn't have met at the dance for returning soldiers in 1945. Vattel Jun 2015 #66

How would you do it? azmom Jun 2015 #2

The person that invented that soft drink TAB bigwillq Jun 2015 #3

That weird petrochemical taste doesn't do it for you? hifiguy Jun 2015 #6

I wouldn't even wash down a tylenol with it. bigwillq Jun 2015 #7

I bet you read The Straight Dope Tab Jun 2015 #69

And you would be right. hifiguy Jun 2015 #71

The ones who invented all of those knockoffs of the good soft drinks. Jamastiene Jun 2015 #37

I won't take a tylenol madokie Jun 2015 #5

Because of that I switched to 840high Jun 2015 #11

Whatever happened to plain old aspirin? hifiguy Jun 2015 #16

I'm an aspirin guy myself madokie Jun 2015 #20

Kids can't use aspirin. And ibuprofen has been linked Ilsa Jun 2015 #23

Thanks for the info, llsa. hifiguy Jun 2015 #26

If you're older like me, there's no telling how many Ilsa Jun 2015 #31

I am old enough to remember when hifiguy Jun 2015 #33

They were orange flavored and you had to take a bunch of them if you Jamastiene Jun 2015 #47

I know some couldn't take aspirin - my mom couldn't - because it is an acid that can cause hifiguy Jun 2015 #52

Oh, I love spicy foods, but Jamastiene Jun 2015 #56

Can't - had a bleeding ulcer. 840high Jun 2015 #40

Same here. LiberalEsto Jun 2015 #58

John Wilkes Booth in January of 1865. madinmaryland Jun 2015 #15

I think someone else would have offed Lincoln Art_from_Ark Jun 2015 #22

Whoever invented Autotune. Throd Jun 2015 #18

Oh yes. Yes indeed. hifiguy Jun 2015 #24

Thank you. Jamastiene Jun 2015 #48

What I remember about the Tylenol Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #19

Ronald "fucking" Reagan sylvanus Jun 2015 #25

Reagan was only the symptom and the messenger. hifiguy Jun 2015 #28

I nearly listed RWR also, but figured Ilsa Jun 2015 #34

Sirhan Sirhan demwing Jun 2015 #27

I don't think that would have made any difference in Kennedy's death Reter Jun 2015 #41

You need to get a blister pack of scissors. kentauros Jun 2015 #30

Rheumatism and arthritis meds come in packaging like that. lpbk2713 Jun 2015 #35

That's insane. kentauros Jun 2015 #42

I hate "childproof" lids. okasha Jun 2015 #44

The generic of my Zoloft now comes in those. Jamastiene Jun 2015 #53

Exactly. Tab Jun 2015 #70

What gets me are the ones where you have to take the Jamastiene Jun 2015 #32

The silica gel is primarily there to keep the pills from sticking together. kentauros Jun 2015 #50

I have a list... MicaelS Jun 2015 #36

we can't tear the fabric of time olddots Jun 2015 #43

Have you read any of Scott Bartz's books on the Tylenol murders? They are very interesting uppityperson Jun 2015 #45

I wouldn't. LWolf Jun 2015 #46

I would kill Pontius Pilate. No crucifixion of Jesus means he lives on muntrv Jun 2015 #49

if i was truly given this power... NeoGreen Jun 2015 #57

The Tylenol Mafia LiberalEsto Jun 2015 #60

I remember Bob Green's finest editorial, addressed to the Tylenol killer Skittles Jun 2015 #67

Ahh but messing with the fabric of time can have unintended consequences :) Marrah_G Jun 2015 #62

whoever spawned the Koch brothers DonCoquixote Jun 2015 #64

Here's a hint regarding those blister packs... Contrary1 Jun 2015 #65

K&R. That person might not be my first choice, but I take your point. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2015 #68

The Zen answer would be "Myself" because the notion of self is an illusion. McCamy Taylor Jun 2015 #72