How to start a war

Rockstar · 06-27-23, 08:28 PM

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
13 March 1962,
Subject: Justification for US Military Intervention i n Cuba (TS)

Jesus H Christ some of the ways our government proposed to gain support for a war in Cuba is outright terrifying and wrong. Include killing your own people and blame it on the other guy.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

August · 06-27-23, 10:50 PM

My Team Sergeant, at the time a young private, was standing in the door waiting for the green light to jump into Cuba during Bay of Pigs when Kennedy aborted the mission. At the last second they pulled him back and shut the doors saving him from death or a commie prison.

Jimbuna · 06-28-23, 04:37 AM

I'd say he had one helluva lucky escape.

August · 06-28-23, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I'd say he had one helluva lucky escape.

Yep.

Platapus · 06-29-23, 03:13 PM

I am glad the president nixed that plan.

there was a period of insanity where pretty much anything was considered acceptable if it could be linked to being anti communist.

There was even a plan that if the Mercury spacecraft carrying John Glenn crashed to blame it on Cuba and the communist.

No need to let a dead American go to waste.

But then, false flag operations sometimes work. You just have to convince a gullible public about what "happened" and you are good.

06-27-23, 08:28 PM	#1
Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	How to start a war MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 13 March 1962, Subject: Justification for US Military Intervention i n Cuba (TS) Jesus H Christ some of the ways our government proposed to gain support for a war in Cuba is outright terrifying and wrong. Include killing your own people and blame it on the other guy. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

06-27-23, 10:50 PM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	My Team Sergeant, at the time a young private, was standing in the door waiting for the green light to jump into Cuba during Bay of Pigs when Kennedy aborted the mission. At the last second they pulled him back and shut the doors saving him from death or a commie prison. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

06-28-23, 04:37 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'd say he had one helluva lucky escape. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-29-23, 03:13 PM	#5
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I am glad the president nixed that plan. there was a period of insanity where pretty much anything was considered acceptable if it could be linked to being anti communist. There was even a plan that if the Mercury spacecraft carrying John Glenn crashed to blame it on Cuba and the communist. No need to let a dead American go to waste. But then, false flag operations sometimes work. You just have to convince a gullible public about what "happened" and you are good. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.