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[–] 158 points 7 months ago (22 children)

In 1962

Does not make it less outrageous, but I thought it's good to know it's not a recent proposal

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  • [–] 64 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    In the modern era, the US president doesn't need to actually have a justification for starting a war, just the possibility of profit.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's not a war, it's an engagement of political discourse through military action to accommodate business interests.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    There's a lot of crazy conspiracy theorists who believe Kennedy rejecting the operation in 1962 may have had something to do with his head doing that thing it did in Dallas in 1963.

    Obviously not the only factor. He had a lot of strikes against him for pushing back on the plans of men who weren't elected to run the United States, but felt entitled to do so on account of knowing what was best for democracy.

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  • [+] -10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The invading Cuba part kinda already tells us that.

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