Hopefully, a letter will be uncovered in a hundred years and we will learn kennedy was killed as revenge for castro stuff or mob stuff, etc…and I guess it could even have been for the Diem assassination.
I think you are right about the current Pres. His minions would just keep going, after all the prize is still in the ground.
And I personally think both parties were in on the oil grab. They just may have done it a bit differently.

It is kind of strange that Reagan was responsible for emptying the mental hospitals and then got whacked by a former patient.

It does seem like intelligence agencies prey on the mentally susceptible, and often remold them into “terrorists” or double agents who think they’re being heros, but often get cut loose and go down in history as villains.

“The Assassins Gallery” sounds like a good read. That is a tough question…can a single assassin accomplish what a war can’t? I’d guess sometimes, and sometimes not. For instance, I believe the CIA admittedly killing Kennedy probably caused a larger Vietnam War and the deaths of untold thousands of Americans and Vietnamese.

On the other hand, if something happened to the current dictator in chief, I’m not sure that much would change. Cheney and Rove and Rice would just pick the torch up and continue the neocon agenda, and Hillary and Obama don’t seem like they really down deep want to get out of Iraq too quick.

Speaking of trained to kill stressed-out returning soldiers, if you haven’t seen it, check out a copy of the fictional documentary Death of a President. If you’re into politics, it’s better than its 6.5 user rating, and sounds like it’s right down your alley, Xman.

Lately since our country is so against the war and so many soldiers have died and been wounded and arguably “wasted”, I have been wondering how many stress syndrome soldiers (trained to kill) and families and friends we have out there who feel betrayed by the administration…for all the reasons the administration have proven themselves to be crooks?
Thats just people in our country, what about all the others?

Below is an interesting book I ran across. Makes for an interesting discussion.

“The Assassins Gallery,” by David L. Robbins, is a historical thriller set during the early months of 1945. Professor Mikhal Lammeck poses the question: “Can a single man change or direct the course of history?” during the first session of his class at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Although the professor is fascinated by the whole “bloody mess that is human history,” his particular field of expertise is the political killer or assassin. Lammeck has begun to write a treatise on assassinations, but, after five years of work, the book remains unfinished…and he meets an American Secret Service, and his job is to protect President Franklin Roosevelt. After two civil defense wardens are killed while patrolling a remote Massachusetts beach, Nabbit and his superiors suspect that a deadly intruder has infiltrated the country to kill FDR. They want Lammeck to lend his expertise in the hunt for this would-be assassin.

The author provides some interesting facts about famous assassins in history, and he repeatedly raises questions similar to the one that the professor asked in Scotland: Do people mold history or are they history’s unwitting pawns? By killing a head of state, can a single individual accomplish what years of war cannot?

Very true. I specifically remember hearing the following inane excuses for voting for Bush instead of Kerry:

A friend of a friend was in Vietnam when Kerry was there, and they said he drank a lot (As opposed to Dubya who failed to even show up for his country, and was busy drinking a lot at home???!!!!)

Kerry is just a rich Yankee, just married for the money, and no way am I making Teresa Heinz the First Lady ( I don’t have much of a response to this, just that because somebody didn’t like Teresa and Kerry’s background, we have instead blown $400 billion and thousands of lives in Iraq, and at the same time anulled our Constitution…)

A false belief, not susceptible to argument or reason, and determined, pathologically, by some form of mental disorder.

These are uncertain times.