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H2O Man

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43. Thank you!

Reply to spanone (Reply #18)

Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:52 PM

Jun 19

For some reason, I'ved been thinking of 13 days in October, 1962, when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place. Fortunately, we had JFK in office, coordinating with RFK and a couple of others. As it turned out, the southeast could have been nuked if the country didn't have real leadership from the Kennedy brothers.

Had either of the last two -- or next two -- presidents had been in office, there would have been a nuclear war. It took the brave leadership of JFK to ignore the immense pressure from the military to attack immediately, and to find the better way. That is not a quality every president has. It is pathetic that we have this ass-wipe in office.

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