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Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 9:01:16 AM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 9:08:24 AM   
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Much of the documentary "Fog of War" (of which Mr. McNamara is a significant part) is on YouTube, & it is fascinating. Here's the first segment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOoOcIFhaoA

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 9:10:41 AM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 9:11:50 AM   
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GEEZUS....ya think there might be other people dying? This death/dying thing could start a trend.

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 9:13:01 AM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 11:13:04 AM   
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I have heard of Vietnam tho, and how it will never happen again.

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 11:27:37 AM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 3:13:42 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 3:44:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		A very tongue-in-cheek reply to windchymes: technically McNamara was a nonagenarian . . . . . .

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 5:01:50 PM   
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I'm getting really creeped out by all these octogenerians who are dying.....


Well, he made it past the octo part, he was 93.......what is that? Septagenarian?
No.....it would be the latin for nine........nevertheless.
Only the good die young..............

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< Message edited by mnottertail -- 7/6/2009 5:11:13 PM >

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 5:29:02 PM   
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Septuagenarian is the 70-year-old bunch. 90 is.......just fuckin' old.

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 5:51:06 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 6:11:40 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 6:25:55 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 6:41:41 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 7:51:53 PM   
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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 7:58:20 PM   
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We probably would have won the war in VietNam if that idiot wasn't secretary of defense. Instead everyone knows what happened . 


LOL.

Prithee, what Secretary of Defense could have been installed that could have won that war?

you kill me.

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 8:04:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		A secretary that was pro military, and not a pollitsion. Kennedy started it. Johnson and Mcnamara screwed it up and Nixon ended it..

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 8:07:11 PM   
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I have heard of Vietnam tho, and how it will never happen again.



Yup, the PTB learned from their mistake. If you want to sustain a war without your natives growing too restless and withdrawing their support, you must first create a bigger, better, more believable boogy-man.

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RE: Robert McNamara dead - 7/6/2009 8:12:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well..........that's just not so.

Eisenhower 'started' it, Kennedy continued it, Johnson escalated it, Nixon escalated it, and then ended it.

It would be a marvel that the world has never seen were we to entitle a Secretary of Defense that was not political.  (BTW, McNamara was CEO of Ford and not a politician before his appointment)

So, how about someone like Paris Hilton for Secretary of Defense?  She appears rather apolitical.

War is an extension of politics, by other means.

Sun Tzu, Clauswitz, et al. 



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