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07-06-2009, 07:50 PM | #647 |
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Robert McNamara wrote later that he and others had not asked five basic questions: "Was it true that the fall of South Vietnam would trigger the fall of all Southeast Asia? Would that constitute a grave threat to the West's security? What kind of war — conventional or guerrilla — might develop? Could the U.S. win with its troops fighting alongside the South Vietnamese? Should the U.S. not know the answers to all these questions before deciding whether to commit troops?"
He never considered the question "Can a bunch of eggheaded nerds micromanage a war half a world away better than the Generals whose expertise they were ignoring?" The world is better off without Robert McNamara.
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07-06-2009, 08:06 PM | #648 |
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Trevor Bannister, Nicholas Smith, and Mike Berry are still alive.
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07-06-2009, 10:43 PM | #650 |
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I am with you on that one. I'm sure he's hanging out with Jesse Helms, Hitler, Nixon, and Reagan right now.
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07-06-2009, 10:56 PM | #651 |
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are you sure they're all dead? :p
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07-07-2009, 11:14 AM | #653 |
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What about the Kennedys and LBJ Radar?
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07-07-2009, 12:54 PM | #654 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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07-08-2009, 10:02 AM | #656 |
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A Truly great man has died
I wonder if they bury him, cremate him or just slice him up:
Oscar Mayer MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95. Mayer's wife, Geraldine, said he died of old age Monday age at Hospice Care in Fitchburg. He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods, which was once the largest private employer in Madison. His grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955 and his father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965. Mayer retired as chairman of the board in 1977 at age 62 soon after the company recorded its first $1 billion year. The company was later sold to General Foods and is now a business unit of Kraft. Mayer's first wife, Rosalie, died in 1998. He married Geraldine Fitzpatrick in 1999.
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07-08-2009, 10:19 AM | #658 |
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My baloney has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R.
My baloney has a second name, it's M-E-Y-E-R. I like to eat it every day and if you ask my why, I'll say, that Oscar Meyer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A. *sniff* |
07-08-2009, 10:21 AM | #659 |
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I just noticed I spelled it baloney and then later bologna. heh
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07-08-2009, 10:47 AM | #660 |
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[nitpick]Also it's Mayer[/nitpick]
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