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Jul 21, 2014StarGladiator rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This is one of those misinformational books told to us from the POV that the politicians were in control, not simply the lackeys fulfilling their paymasters' directives. It is telling that John McCain writes the foreward, given that McCain only gained admittance to the Naval Academy because of his father and grandfather [both admirals] and that McCain bombed his own aircraft carrier, crashed a bunch of planes while PUI, and lasted but a few hours in combat before being shot down and captured. Also, his daddy was LBJ's coverup specialist when Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed many US Navy seamen. [When reading this keep in mind: declassified memos from the State Department in the late 1990s verified that JFK ordered the withdrawl of all US military advisors from Vietnam to begin in late November of 1963, advisors originally dispatched there by President Eisenhower, and that it was LBJ who dramatically incrteased the military there and throughout Southeast Asia. When reading this, be sure to also read Donald Gibson's book, Battling Wall Street: the Kennedy presidency.]