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this is absolutely fascinating your
opinions are welcome but my opinion is increasingly that
Obama has as the
I mean he started out here's here's my chronology back let's let's go back
into the Wayback Machine back in nineteen sixty
to john kennedy was asked in a press conference what will you do
if if I love offense if weapons are put into
cuba our cuba you know puts
be arms itself and Kennedy of the cough
said basically wat world
meet with a vigorous response or words to that effect very strong response
now back in the sixties there was
in in six even 62 there was this huge battle going on between
Jack Kennedy and Richard X richard nixon been defeated in the election 1960 by a
whisker
and he was gonna run again and
the way that Kennedy defeated nixon in the 1960 election
was by criticizing nixon for being weak on communism
because nixon had been vice president he been in charge of the whole cuba thing
in the Eisenhower administration
and nixon had participated in kinda over Siena
the cuban revolution where an initially we actually thought nixon actually
thought
America thought that castro in overthrowing the dictator batista
was going to become a small the democrat is in turn in a democratic nation be an
ally of our sorta like
George W Bush thought that when he overthrew Saddam Hussein
that and iraq would align itself with us
fact the matter is that align themselves with iran now but a pretty much
officially that
a so things don't always hurt
racket so so kennedy beat nixon by beating them up for not been
sufficiently
tough on communists in the 1960 election by saying that
nixon and then and you know castro the then align himself with the Soviet Union
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and Kennedy use that that nixon let castro go communist
to win the 1960 election so
in 61 and 62
and threw 63 and 64 I i ve seen
kennedy was assassinated November 63 but you know throughout their four-year
period it
fell to lyndon johnson to defend the anti-communist position against nixon's
assaults and he did that by going to vietnam but
during that time Kennedy had to be
you know a real tough guy cuz nixon was campaigning
you know to run again for president which he ultimately didn't 72
are in 68 to me and
so Kennedy
knew that he had to sound like a tough guy when he was asked about
you know if cuba gets offensive weapons what will you do because I mean that's
how he had
be Dixon in the 1960 election yet to continue that
in a beating a drum and so he made his offhand remark the offhand remark then
cause the whole
dog republicans nixon the whole you know to just for a week or so go hysterical
and say well you know we never heard this before this administration we
thought he was just a web you know I've got reset
now Bloody Bloody Bloody Bloody block and so kennedy comes out
as the following week and this is the week I love
what september twelfth to 1962
Anders up to her thirteenth he comes out
and opens his press conference with a very brief prepared statement responding
to all the fuhrer in the press from nixon and the republicans
over the previous week basically sane
about him the same thing Harry saying about Obama right now
and so kennedy says this
if at any time the communist build-up in cuba
where to endanger or interfere with %ah security in any way
including our base at Guantanamo of passage to the Panama Canal
I missile and space activities at Cape Canaveral
on a live american citizens in this country
or humor should ever attempt to export
its aggressive purposes by force or the threat of force
against any nation in this hemisphere or become an offensive
military base are significant capacity
for the Soviet Union then this country will do
whatever must be done to protect its own security
and that its allies we shall be alert to
and fully capable are dealing for free with any such develop
as president and commander in chief I have full authority now
to take such action I have full authority now takes a mess such action
so
basically the same kinda question was put to Obama a
a year ago this is a year and a month ago
back in August 2 2012 the republicans were all you know all look at the Arab
Spring but look at what's going on in Syria on a side but you're all side is
are %ah side is how they said in Syria is %uh you're killing his own people and
really you know we gotta figure out a way to kinda piano Obama down on this
and somebody says well what would you do
if you use chemical weapons in Obama's as well that would be a red line
you know if he did that he crossed the Red Line you know it's it's a get
involved
this year ago
so Obama by saying that was basically handing a gift
and i'd I think that I don't think that he said it with a lot of
a he didn't get any gamed this one out
in advance although I could be wrong but basically what he did is he had the
republicans
and the but more importantly the rebels in Syria
a a weapon basically he said to the rebels in Syria if you want the United
States to
to join your side attack aside all you have to do is make it look like
poison gas was used by Assad against his own people
and so in my opinion
now and I may well be rock subpoena may well be that aside gassed his own people
but
I cannot figure out why there is no
no political purposes the area that it was done in was a
you know under partly under Assad's control partly under the
rebels control it didn't accomplish any political
victory affected her decides it didn't accomplish any military victory
so I'm of the opinion that the rebels did this depended on the side so that
Obama would find himself back into a corner which he did
and so he input and get together a week ago and say you know I can get ourselves
out of this
is eventually weren't coming conflict over this is russia has this
military base in Syria
and it looks like they forced out I think it's pretty cool
you're listening to the Thom Hartmann program
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now I may be completely wrong in all this is subject to
what President Obama says tonight what happens over the course the next week
so we ask that you know halsey itself