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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
It could also be argued that he [Kennedy] prevented it by blockading russian missiles to cuba.
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Kennedy ordered the ships to fire to enforce the blockade. Cuban commanders were authorized to launch in that event. Khrushchev ordered the ships to turn away, thereby averting war. Cuba already had missiles. They were operational.
What about Henry Ford?
The guy who helped to finance Hitler's rise to power, donated $40,000 (not adjusted for inflation) to print German translations of anti-semitic pamphlets, kept his Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle despite the protests of Jewish froups like the ADL until he died in 1947, and owned a newspaper that published such pieces fo propaganda as
The International Jew and
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? That guy was a great American?