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Rachel Maddow admits Vietnam war only happened because JFK was assassinated
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Gordon Gray Wrote:
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Fine, whatever. I just thought it was unusual to hear corporate media pundits discuss the idea that Vietnam policy really did change because of JFK's death.
Wanting them to admit to a conspiracy is too much to expect. Alec Baldwin was about to start a new show on MSNBC, and then he wrote an article about conspiracies...
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/amer...-been-lied
...and that was the end of his show. They claimed it was because he yelled at a reporter. Hell, that was nothing new. Everyone knows that Baldwin hates the paparazzi.
Great article by Baldwin. And of course a voice like his can't be allowed near the MSM. But his last remark makes me wonder. "The intelligence community believes that most Americans don't want to know how the sausage is made. But I can handle it. I think most Americans, a pretty tough bunch, can handle it, too." I definitely believe we could handle it now. We have become sufficiently cynical as a nation about our government to not be surprised by the other shoe dropping. But what about in 1963? I have always wondered if knowing the truth about the establishment's involvement in the JFK assassination could have been processed by the country at that time. Think of the chaos had the Warren report read more the Oliver stone movie. And this at the height of the Cold War and MAD.

As I've said before, most Americans believe there was a conspiracy, but what kind of conspiracy do they believe in? I bet it's only 30-40% who think that elements high up in the government were responsible. Same is true of MLK, RFK and other events since then. In short, I still don't think most Americans can process the truth very well.
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Rachel Maddow admits Vietnam war only happened because JFK was assassinated - by Tracy Riddle - 12-06-2015, 07:07 PM

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