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To: American Spirit who wrote (8539)	5/16/2006 8:17:42 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 71588

Right before he died, JFK whisper to Jackie "We don't want your stinkin' war"

To: American Spirit who wrote (8539)	5/16/2006 8:19:01 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 71588

JFK wrote Joe Crocker's lyrics for Woodstock

To: American Spirit who wrote (8539)	5/16/2006 10:28:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Even if JFK had some secret plans to de-escalate the war it doesn't change the fact that he had escalated it. In fact even if he had actually ended the war it wouldn't change the fact that he had earlier escalated it. One again I'm not attacking him for escalating it, I'm just pointing out a simple fact. Your responding to the simple, uncontroversial fact as if it was some sort of vicious attack against JFK but it is not. More importantly the statement is true whether or not it is an attack. LBJ escalated it a lot more. Nixon de-escalated it. It was at a higher level under Nixon that it was under JFK but escalation isn't about how big the war is but rather about it getting bigger or smaller. Moving from 1 to 2 soldiers is an escalation. Moving from 1,000,000 to 999,999 is not.