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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (497097)11/22/2003 4:13:29 PM
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Who cares what Kennedy's defense budget was? He was in power 1000 days and inherited most of it, plus he had a Cuban Missile Crisis. Given time, perhaps Kennedy would have gotten us out of Vietnam and solved the Cold War. But he never had the chance.

One observation about the huge military spending at the time. If 42% of the budget was going to military, that would mean if JFK wanted to turn into a dove and reduce spending there would have been huge financial interests at stake with the "military-industrial complex" as Eisenhower called it. That complex was so rich and powerful that it could easily have engineered such a coup d'etat by slaying the one man who might have challenged their power. The Kennedys also challenged Hoover. He too had a motive and means for murder. Oliver Stone's film seems to hit it on the head. Of course right-wingers and LBJ supporters hate to hear about it.
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