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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: John Carragher who wrote (68302)1/24/2003 8:38:23 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Perhaps part of the war was over oil?


Naah, that was our "Altruistic" one. We had no selfish interest there. It was a combination of the Cold War, Sec of State Dulles desire to help out the Catholic south, and the Kennedy's need to redeem themselves for the Cuban Debacle. Then Johnson was the "Tar Baby."
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