8 times Obama said there would be no ground troops or no combat mission in Syria

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57. JFK repeatedly crossed the CIA,

fired its psychopathic and murderous director, Allen Dulles, after Dulles lied him into signing off on the Bay of Pigs. Despite being fired, Dulles retained opertional control of large parts of the CIA until well into the presidency of LBJ.

The new book by David Talbot, "The Devil's Chessbord" documents this. While he doesn't actually accuse Dulles of being the man who gave final approval for the hit on JFK, which is all but certain, Talbot paints the line directly to Dulles.

Kennedy had more enemies of great power than perhaps any other president. He intended to directly engage Khrushchev and the USSR to greatly defuse the worst Cold War tensions, tolerate genuine independence for Third World countries once colonalized, and withdraw US military personnel from Vietnam after the 1964 election. He was also opening back channels to Fidel Castro in the months before he was killed. The MIC opposed every one of Kennedy's primary foreign policy goals.

No one in the world outside the Kennedy family was more saddened and shocked by the assassination than Khrushchev and Castro.

The lesson is simple - you cross the spooks and you die.

ETA

"Dulles’ career began in the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he built a powerful client list. During wartime in Switzerland, he worked to protect his clients’ corporations and build his own organization. In direct opposition to Franklin Roosevelt’s policy, he sought a separate peace with the Germans to use them to fight communism. Talbot delivers a variety of thrilling stories about Dulles that boggle the mind, from skimming funds from the Marshall Plan to using Richard Nixon as his mouthpiece in Congress. It is really about the power elite, the corporate executives, government leaders, and top military officials who controlled the world. They protected corporate interests in Iran, Guatemala, and elsewhere, and they fomented revolutions, experimented in mind control, and assassinated those who got in their way."

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-talbot/the-devils-chessboard/

By almost all accounts, Dulles was an unsympathetic and sinister character. As a lawyer for Sullivan and Cromwell in the 1930s, Dulles protected and promoted Nazi-controlled cartels. He used his influence in the Office of Strategic Services and the CIA to shield former Nazis from prosecution for war crimes in the ’40s and ’50s so that he could enlist them to fight communists.

By 1963, Talbot insists, a clear consensus had emerged among corporate leaders “and within America’s deep state” that Kennedy was a threat to national security and had to be removed. Dulles, they concluded, “was the only man with the stature, connections, and decisive will to make something of this enormity happen. … All that his establishment colleagues had to do was to look the other way — as they always did when Dulles took executive action.”

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Devil-s-Chessboard-by-David-Talbot-6574578.php

But we're just silly conspiracy theorists.