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MyNameGoesHere

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2. Yeah. However you did not mention that we

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 10:40 AM

Jan 2014

placed missiles near Russia first. Turkey ring a bell?

After the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey, aimed at Moscow, and the failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, in May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. During a meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro that July, a secret agreement was reached and construction of several missile sites began in the late summer.

We were the aggressors. He didn't save us from anything, he caused it.

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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