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upaloopa

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1. Well you can cherry pick anyone's life and

Reply to MyNameGoesHere (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 10:33 AM

Jan 2014

make it what you want.
I am glad that when I was a kid growing up in the sixties we didn't go to war over missiles in Cuba.
We were one step away from nuclear war.
The military wanted war. He didn't.

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The left's fascination with Kennedy leaves me dumbfounded sometimes [View all] MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 OP

Well you can cherry pick anyone's life and upaloopa Jan 2014 #1

Yeah. However you did not mention that we MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #2

The missiles in Turkey were obsolete and we upaloopa Jan 2014 #3

Explain to me the deaths caused by obsolete MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #6

Look at it the way you want. upaloopa Jan 2014 #4

Also you are looking at this completely out of context upaloopa Jan 2014 #5

It isn't cherry picking MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #7

We're you alive and aware back then? upaloopa Jan 2014 #8

You won't ever understand my point of view MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #10

He ctsnowman Jan 2014 #9

Yep that's pretty much it, IMO.... socialist_n_TN Jan 2014 #11

^^ this^^. nt TBF Jan 2014 #12

Exactly! ctsnowman Jan 2014 #13