20-02-2011, 01:00 AM
One other thing to note just how bad Chomsky is on this.
He once said that, in retrospect, he would let stand his discussion of the issue in Rethinking Camelot which was issued in 1992. He said anything else added was just "nuance".
What rubbish.
The ARRB documents on this point were not declassified until 1997!
There now in black and white was McNamara riding herd on the withdrawal plan in Hawaii in May of 1963. And everyone in the room knows they are getting out, no matter what happens on the field.
Further, the testimony about Galbraith leading the way and handing off to McNamara was not in the record until years after that. Because Howard Jones found an oral history by Ros Gilpatric, McNamara's assistant, in which he mentions it.
So much for "nuance".
Batey should do his homework.
He once said that, in retrospect, he would let stand his discussion of the issue in Rethinking Camelot which was issued in 1992. He said anything else added was just "nuance".
What rubbish.
The ARRB documents on this point were not declassified until 1997!
There now in black and white was McNamara riding herd on the withdrawal plan in Hawaii in May of 1963. And everyone in the room knows they are getting out, no matter what happens on the field.
Further, the testimony about Galbraith leading the way and handing off to McNamara was not in the record until years after that. Because Howard Jones found an oral history by Ros Gilpatric, McNamara's assistant, in which he mentions it.
So much for "nuance".
Batey should do his homework.