-You are kidding right?

A ------ of people were pissed at Kennedy over that, and the Bay of Pigs, the nuclear test ban treaty, the policy to stay out of Vietnam, reducing the reach of the CIA, etc.

It's why some cheered when he was killed. Horrible time for our country.

I visited the 6th floor depository building museum last weekend. My daughter lives not far from it at all.

It's probably why I pointed to Kennedy to illustrate how this country capitulates and negotiates with world leaders we aren't fond of......

It's been fun. I have a local Hospice House fundraiser to attend this evening.

I'll think of you guys when I'm drinking my Woodford and overbidding on stuff I don't need.

Actually.....no, I won't think of you guys. Hopefully you don't think about me either......I'm not worth it.

-1 level above JeffJ in a 100 level game

You're 3 levels above --------.

See? I'm not that petty....

-FDR wasn't competing with other nations to get these very nazi scientists because their importance to ending the was wasn't 'clear' to people then?

not you...not for at least 20+ years would you have gotten it.

While Trump's actions with regard to Putin are what they are being called, it's not that the US is NOW sending a message to the world's dictators they can get away with what Putin has gotten away with.

It's all about the "now". You could have retracted anytime.......and you want to, really.

But your pride is just toooooo strong. That chip on your shoulder is too important.

We've worked with them before and we'll work with them again.

I believe the argument can be made we've saved the lives of millions and millions and avoided horrible wars by doing it.

You have nothing to argue with except an accusation of being a Trumper.

Literally nothing...which is why you desperately have to run and grab it.

There. I said it.

-Clearly, the decision to bring NAZI scientists to the US was strategic

It wouldn't have been "clear" to anybody especially Corky in 1945.

To people who were a few IQ points stronger? absolutely.

But it's 80+ years later. That's a little bit of a factor in how we see it.

"his way of saying sorry for wasting our time."

You can run down to the unemployment office anytime to renew your moocher gold card

the United States has been breaking bread and shaking hands with brutal dictators for as long as they've been around.

Keep trying to nitpick that FACT to death all you want.

Nobody is buying it. Call me a Trumper.......it'll only be the 4 millionth time...maybe it will hurt my feelings the 4,000,001th time.

-You generalizing that to any 'bad guy' just makes you look foolish. Skol!

No it doesn't.

Everyone here is cringing for you and praying the rosary I stop beating you with this "NOW" --------.

It's not "NOW". It's been part and parcel for the past 150 years.

Oh, and it's going to be "tomorrow" when Trump is long gone.

Now with all that said.......it's disgusting that Trump has invited Putin to any kind of hospitality to Putin before or after his indictment by the ICC.

I'm not going to defend that.

"Stalin wasn't an ICC indictee"

Oh, and it doesn't matter that the ICC didn't start that process until 2005?

That's got to be the most pathetic deflection yet.

"American Presidents don't usually invite ICC war criminal indictees to American soil"

"The most well-known instance of Nazi collaborators immigrating to the U.S. was through Operation Paperclip, in which some 1,600 Nazi scientists and engineers were employed by the U.S. government and given residence and citizenship in the ensuing years. German scientist and pioneer of space flight Wernher Von Braun was notably recruited through this program. His contributions to the U.S. space program have been celebrated; Huntsville, Ala., has both a day (Feb. 24) and a 9,000-seat arena named after him. Yet the work that earned him the reputation that enabled his immigration to the U.S. was indefensible. Von Braun contributed to the use of brutal and enslaved labor in the Mittelwerk rocket engineering complex during his time as a Nazi."

The US never helped out or chummed it up with any dictators before NOW.......

I love this hack job history lesson.

"Your welcome. I've tried to run from my "now" comment for a while but the stink is still attached."

-corky

-FDR and Trump are the same person!

if we're going to make comparisons.....is Putin the same as Pol Pot or Stalin?

maybe........a lot of frickin dead Russians and other on their watches.

-Presidents allowed Americans the right to protest back then.

It seems like that was more of a rally of celebration of nationalism rather than a protest.

-The American Pres then was supporting Russia against Hitler

Not THEN......later, in 1941

You are trying to get your facts straight but you're putting them out of order.

"The Original America Firsters were holding 20k strong Nazi Celebrations in Madison Sq Garden."

safely right under FDR's nose.

"Libs have a reason to be pissed off."

Were they pissed off at Kennedy for negotiating with Khruschev.

-Putin has never been a credible actor on the world stage

couldn't agree more.

but you're trying to obfuscate from the fact you think that NOW the US is okay with this stuff.

When it's been the case most of the 20th century.

"American soil."

oh FFS....you're make that a distinction? Trump hadn't pandered to a Dictator until Alaska?

LOL

When Hitler invaded Poland....would Corky have screamed how we can't let him get away with it?

"and telling every Authoritarian dictator in the world, including Putin, that taking the territory if a free, democratic nation is fine with the USA now."

-Telegram sent from Corky to FDR, September, 1939.