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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: HPilot who wrote (522263)10/21/2009 11:13:54 AM
From: bentway2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 1582695
 
Goldwater was an Air Force general who just dusted off that old plan for after the '64 campaign.

en.wikipedia.org

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - Barry Goldwater

"Goldwater's provocative advocacy of aggressive tactics to prevent the spread of communism in Asia led to effective counterattacks from Lyndon B. Johnson and his supporters, who claimed that Goldwater's militancy would have dire consequences, possibly even nuclear war. Regarding Vietnam, Goldwater charged that Johnson's policy was devoid of "goal, course, or purpose," leaving "only sudden death in the jungles and the slow strangulation of freedom."[18] Goldwater's own rhetoric on nuclear war was viewed by many as quite uncompromising, a view buttressed by off-hand comments such as, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin."[19]"

Goldwater was an extreme right wingnut - does this look familiar? The states he carried in 1964:

What goes around comes around - this same map is the (R) future!
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