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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (258567)	5/25/2002 5:40:04 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769667

I don't think keeping one's mouth shut is at all patriotic, in the instances that you mention. This is America, not China, fascist Italy, or the Soviet Union. The more we talk about everything, with the only exception of true, bona-fide military secrets (which is 1% of the self-serving crap called erroneously "national security"), the stronger our country, economy, culture, and politics become, all of which increases our security as a nation, and increases our national commitment. This is one of the fatal flaws of this administration, putting up curtains of secrecy and, no doubt, deception, supposedly but inccorectly in the "national interest". As far as motives for JFK's murder, a lot was accomplished with that one strike. Fear was put in the hearts of politicians and military personnel in the US (and worldwide), that no one is immune, regardless how highly placed. The greatest impact on our society was to demonstrate domestic assassination creates political and budgetary change, instantly. The controversy over before and after, rests on which way the Vietnam war was going, what was likely to happen to the CIA (Allen Dulles was just fired), and the direction of Pentagon spending build-up and the Cold War with Soviet Union. If those questions are answered with confidence, one can start making further assumptions on motive. But, you are right, the means and opportunity were there, not just in Dallas, but before and at many points after Dallas, at any time, basically.