Re: VIRTUAL JFK: Vietnam Had Kennedy Lived

*chuckle*

LBJ reversed NSAM 263 didn't he?

"Anthony Marsh" <anthony_marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 wrote:
> On May 3, 4:07 pm, "Gerry Simone" <newdecent...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Marsh said that JFK 'had set into motion' such plans with an initial
>> withdrawal.
>>
>> It may not have been written in stone wrt ALL troops.
>
> Yeah, Marsh says a lot of things.  Buying what he says is about like 
> buying stock in Billie Sol Estes’s fertilizer tanks, especially when he
is 
> discussing Vietnam or military operations in general.  His ballistic 
> expertise falls into the same basket.
>

As usual when you WC defenders do not have any facts your only available
tactic personal attacks.

> The reason it isn’t written in stone is because it doesn’t exist.  The 
> only “evidence” that sup****ts JFK withdrawing ALL U.S. personnel after
he 
> was re-elected is the sayings of a few people.  As mentioned before,
some 
> are not creditable (O’Donnell-Powers) some are (O’Neil).

As usual, when faced with evidence your only way out is to attack the
credibility of the source. If God had said the same thing you'd say that
God is not creditable.

> To counter this you have for example Dean Rusk saying JFK had never 
> discussed it with him.  Mostly you have an oral interview with Bobby 
> Kennedy saying that any such decision had not been reached by JFK.
>
> I think we all would agree that Bobby knew what Jack was thinking better

> than the others.
>
> NSAM 263 spells out JFK’s plans for Vietnam until the year 1965.  At no 
> time does NSAM 263 talk of all the troops coming home.  As for the 1,000

> man withdrawal, it was so much politics.  You heard the discussion about

> it on the tapes.
>

Johnson reversed Kennedy's policies. Don't blame Kennedy for what was
done after they killed him.

> Bill Clarke
>