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I got a chance to see the new bio on JFK that History Channel is running. Very, very interesting, not the flattering puff piece one might expect. It was certainly no smear, much of it positive, but it took issue with his "greatness," and some of his contemporaries surmised he would have been run out of office had he made it to a second term, and they also called into question his legendary civil right backgrounds, calling him purely reactionary. BUT...
The 13 days in October segment was very compelling. The intel we had, the real decisions to be made, AND THE CONCERN THAT THE INTEL WAS CORRECT. The narration placed a none-too-subtle poke right in Chimpy's eyes when it concluded the segment with something along the lines of "and Kennedy pointed up the critical need for a president to be absolutely certain that the intelligence he is using is accurate before leading a nation to war, and he showed that a commander in chief must always be suspect when the military and the joint chiefs call for war."
Touche.
But then, we know W didn't err. He did exactly as he intended.
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