Can someone explain this to me about Hugo Chavez and Kennedy?
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Surely you cannot be questioning the honor or integrity of the Kennedy family?\n\nI mean, just because old Joe made a ton of money bootlegging and stealing from the stock market... just because one of his sons killed a woman drunk driving... just because his idiot grandson crashed his plane, killing two more innocent women.. just because a grand nephew killed a teenage girl... just because the men of that family are a bunch of womanizing sleazebags...\n\nThat doesn't mean they could be making profits on oil. Shame, shame, shame on you for even suggesting it!
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I've read every book on the subject that I can find, and being a retired Detective, I have come to my own conclusions. There were two factors involved; organized crime and the Communist Cuban Government.\n\nFirst: Lee Harvey Oswald, when he enlisted and became a Military Air Traffic Controller, was described as being 5' 11" tall and having a "bull neck". Does that sound like the guy who was gunned down in Dallas?\n\nSecond: Allen Dulles was Head of the CIA until the Bay of Pigs and kennedy fired him. then he meraculously winds up on the Warren Commission.\n\nThird: Oswald is assigned to West Germany as an ATC at the base where the U-2 flights originated. He defects to the Soviet Union and all of a sudden the Soviets are able to shoot down Francis Gary Powers. Then Oswald is somehow able to un-defect and returns to the US with a Russian War Bride. Does this make sense?\n\nFourth: Oswald is sent to New Orleans to preach on street corners and is implicated in Kennedy's shooting. He supposedly used a rifle that was so poorly made you'd have a better chance of hitting someone if you threw it at him. Oswald started squawking about being a set-up patsy and he was shot to death by the owner of a strip club who was somehow allowed into an area of the Dallas PD that was off-limits to everyone else.\n\nFifth: Anyone who knows anything about firearms (I'm an NRA Distinguished Expert) could see from the Zapruder film that the kill shot was fired from in front of Kennedy and not behind. There's a whole lot of other things that could be said about vectors and trajectors in this instance but I'm not going that far into it right now.\n\nSixth: The real scenario begins when the motorcade made that strange turn into Dealy Plaza and entered the kill box, slowed to a crawl, and put the President smack in the middle of a three way crossfire. Here's how it was done:\n\nOne gunman was positioned in the 2nd floor west end of the Dal-tex building next to the School Book Depository. This gunman fired the round that hit Kennedy in the back. I believe that it was E. Howard Hunt, or at least, Hunt was there.\n\nOne gunman was behind the wood fence on the grassy knoll and fired the round that hit John Connolly. I believe that this was a French-Corsican mob hitman by the name of John paul Suetra.\n\nThe third gunman was on the bridge, in front of the motorcade. He was inside a manhole that had a drainage vent that overlooked Dealy Plaza. This is the guy who fired the shot that blew Kennedy's brains all over the trunk of the car. I believe that this was W.A. Harrelson, Woody harrelson's Father, who has been serving a life without parole sentence in Texas since the sixties, and who has never been allowed to speak publically. I doubt that he's still alive.\n\nThe Cabel Brothers were in this up to their eyeballs. One was the Military Commander of that District and ordered the troops to stand down (the Military was pissed over the Bay of Pigs thing) and the other brother was Mayor of Dallas and directed the investigation into the death.\n\nThere's lot and lots of books out there. Do a little research and you'll see that the legitimate government of the United States was overthrown by a criminal military coup on November 22, 1963.
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Boy did you open a can of worms!\n\nThe Kennedy assassination is one of the favorite of conspiracy theorist (notice I did not say nut cases).  The theories range from LBJ (totally assinine) to the Mafia (more belivable).  They also include Cubans (espcially with Oswalds connections), the CIA (no one ever asked why, they just say the CIA did it), to just some nutcase (it may be true, but can you prove it).\n\nThe real reason will probably never be discovered, but as long as people ask questions, that will be one that will be asked.
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Teddy 'Chappaquiddick' Kennedy is old, fat, and senile, and the voters should have recalled him years ago. The senate's 4 kinds of wrong on the immigration issue, and I fully believe that's what the House is going to find out when they ask their voters on the issue. Here's hoping they do an honest and professional job...
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chavez is trying to spread the oil wealth of his country to the folk that need it as in health care etc . this guy means well by giving the ordinary people of his country the wealth that is theirs. in his small mind bush thinks pinko so all bets are off   chow
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I think Chavez is great. He is kind,generous and for his people.That is way Bush does not like him, he is everything George W is not.
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yep....I just saw the story on Fox News Channel (Hannity & Colmes?)   ....What an awful mess.\n\nCastro is denying them from leaving Cuba because they are dentists. ....Just another example of Castro being a self-serving jerkoff!
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depends on you point view.Kennedy did not send the U.S. military to support Cuban Rebels. They were trained by the U.S.and after their landing in Cuba we were going to help but did not. it was a total disaster. Historian say that this defeat made way for the "Cuban Missile Crisis's".
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Why do you ask that ? El Che was a comunist. He wanted to expand comunism over America, and he contributed to create it in Cuba
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Since you used the word "accidentally", then it IS an accident. I noticed you keep asking about various people being shot by the Vice President. It doesn't matter who they are...get over it!!!! It was an accident. I would rather go hunting with Chaney then riding with Kennedy...you may be too young to remember that a woman drowned to death while T. Kennedy was driving under the influence of alochol and HE didn't report it til days later.....look it up....Chappaquidick, Mass...
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Yes, Argentina used to have a larger economy than Canada until Peronism came along. I guess people always think their problems with be solved if the "right" leader comes along. I think it's fair to say there are a lot of parallels with Chavez.
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He was Fidel Castro's right hand man.  He was a communist and was instrumental in Cuba severing ties with the US.
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Bush is a pro-freedom man.  Chavez is an anti-freedom communist who seeks to enslave his people.  Chavez is curtailing freedoms for his citizens every day.  His ally is Castro, another evil man.  The Venezuelan people deserve liberty, and they deserve better than an evil communist like Chavez.
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The country was Turkey.  This information was not made public at the time and was a 'under-the-table' agreement between Kennedy and Khrushchev.
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None, Chavez is just a thorn both are alike at times they both can sell voters goodies. US would be stupid to take out Chavez because Chavez always stated he hates the American government not the people. Think we should let Chavez do what he wants, but populism of his sort catches up in time. Oil Hangover will hit Chavez like a freight train, and I wonder if Chavez know about Mexico hangover of the 1970s on oil.
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First of all, you have chosen a very wide range of leaders, who though on the left, are really not that similar.  Lula (da Silva), is a center leftist leader who is very different from the others.  Though he once carried a populist message, he now is an established politician who does not spout anti-American rhetoric and conducts business friendly centrist policies.  He is probably been good for the country, economically speaking, as he has developed certain industries well, signed good trade agreements with neighbors, increased trade with MERCOSUR, and lobbied much better for Brazil and other developing nations in world economic forums.  Morally, he has had some recent scandals with corruption, but is still fairly popular.  Most people would consider the path he has taken good for the country, as it has increased economic development. \nOn the opposite end of the spectrum you have Fidel Castro.  Casto is a dictator, putting him in a different category than the rest of these democratically and fairly elected leaders.  He has tortured people, and in general held on to power so long Cuba has stagnated economically and socially.  Though initial gains in literacy and health validated his methods to some, improvements in other countries has increasingly his discredited the control he remains on power.  Though U.S. actions with regards to Cuba certainly have not been morally commendable, this does not place Castro on the moral high ground.  As for economically, given the US boycott that will remain for as long as a Castro (Raul included) in power, he has done the best for the economy he can. Since he has no possible option of keeping his government and the lifting the boycott, he has done as well as can be expected.  \nHugo Chavez is a interesting case, he is a populist leader, who does have the moral high ground over the US in Venezuela, especially with the US tacit support of the coup against him.  Economically, he has spent some of the oil money well.  But increasingly he seems to be undermining democratic institutions in Venezuela and relying instead on the military.  Therefore, he has benefited the common person at least in the short run, but the long term results remain to be seen.  \nEvo Morales is fresh into office.  He represents the poor farmers, the cocaleros, and is likely to represent their social and economic interest well.  However, though his recent moves to nationalize industries will help the people in the short run, if he creates a climate hostile to foreign investment, then he will hurt the poor in the long run, as the economy won't develop.  \nSo in each case it is slight different, and with so much of economics, it is hard to tell what the future will hold.
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Chavez- pres. of Venezuela                             There are quite a few others...but I can't spell their names...lol!