John F. Kennedys War by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-03-27 at 04:14:38 )

John F. Kennedys War by Jacob G. Hornberger!

People sometimes ask me whether there is any relevance of the John F. Kennedy assassination to where we are today as a country.

My answer is direct and unequivocal: Understanding the Kennedy assassination is essential to understanding many of the crises into which our nation has been plunged, especially in foreign affairs but also with respect to out-of-control federal spending and debt. It also provides us with what we need to do to get our nation back on the right track.

Ever since the assassination, the official lie has been that Lyndon Johnson simply continued Kennedys policies. That may have been true with respect to welfare-state programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and civil rights, but it has always been a lie with respect to foreign policy. In fact, it was Kennedys foreign policy that ended up getting him killed.

In my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, I spend two chapters on "JFKs War," a vicious war that was waged between President Kennedy and the Pentagon and the CIA.

Naturally, it is not a war that is taught in American public schools, for obvious reasons. If people were to discover this war, they would be begin to see that the Pentagon and the CIA had much more reason to kill Kennedy than Lee Harvey Oswald, who had no motive whatsoever to kill him.

It was after the Cuban Missile Crisis that the military-intelligence establishment made the decision that President Kennedy had to be replaced with Johnson, on grounds of protecting "national security." The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency were livid over how President Kennedy had handled the crisis and, more important, how he had resolved it. One member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Curtis LeMay, compared Kennedys handling of the crisis to Neville Chamberlains appeasement of Hitler at Munich. He called Kennedys resolution of the crisis "the biggest defeat in United States history."

Why were the generals so filled with rage against Kennedy?? Because they had wanted him to use the crisis as an excuse to bomb and invade Cuba and replace the Castro regime with a pro-United States regime. President Kennedy refused to do that.

Now, let that sink in for a moment. Do you see any relevance to what is happening in the world today??

Yes, the Pentagon and the CIA wanted President Kennedy to do precisely what Russia is doing to Ukraine today. They wanted him to invade a sovereign and independent country and to wreak death and destruction among the Cuban people, just like Russia is doing to Ukraine today and, well, just like the Pentagon and the CIA did to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not only did President Kennedy refuse to do that, he struck a deal with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in which he promised that the United States would not invade Cuba. In return, Khrushchev agreed to remove his nuclear missiles from Cuba and take them home.

President Kennedys vow to Mr. Khrushchev was anathema to the Pentagon and the CIA and was, in their eyes, a grave threat to "national security."

For them, leaving Cuba permanently in communist hands left America vulnerable to defeat in the Cold War against the Soviet Union and "godless communism."

Even before Kennedy took office, the military-intelligence establishment was absolutely hell-bent on invading Cuba and wreaking death and destruction with the intent to install another pro-U.S. dictator into power, similar to Fulgencio Batista, the corrupt and brutal dictator who had been ousted from power in the Cuban revolution.

That was what the CIAs invasion at the Bay of Pigs was all about.

In fact, it was after that invasion that the vicious war between Kennedy and the CIA got started. The CIA had told Kennedy that the invasion could succeed without United States air support. It was a flat-out lie. They were playing and maneuvering what they considered was a neophyte, naive president. When the invasion began faltering, they figured that President Kennedy would have to provide the needed air support to avoid having the CIAs proxy army of Cuban exiles defeated by the communists. President Kennedy refused to provide the air support and the invasion went down to defeat.

President Kennedy was livid.

He knew he had been lied to and played and manipulated. He fired the CIA director, Allen Dulles, and his two top officials. He began downgrading the power of the CIA. He vowed to destroy the CIA.

For its part, the CIA was equally livid. In their eyes, the new neophyte president had showed weakness and cowardice in the face of the supposed international communist conspiracy to take over the world that, they were convinced, was based in Moscow, Russia - yes, the same Russia with which they are still so obsessed today.

As an aside, it should be noted that Lyndon Johnson appointed Dulles to serve on the Warren Commission, the entity ostensibly charged with investigating the Kennedy assassination, where, conveniently, he was able to control the investigation so that it never headed in the direction of the CIA and the Pentagon.

After the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Pentagon pressured Kennedy into initiating a full-scale invasion of Cuba. That was when the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously proposed Operation Northwoods, a plan based on falsehood and fraud designed to give Kennedy a pretext to invade Cuba and do what the Russians are currently doing in Ukraine. Kennedy said no.

Insofar as the Pentagon and the CIA were concerned, Kennedys agreement with the communists to leave Cuba permanently in communist hands to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis was bad enough. But it was President John F. Kennedys Peace Speech at American University in early June 1963 that sealed his fate.

In that speech, President Kennedy announced that the United States would no longer have a hostile relationship with the Soviet Union. It would henceforth be a peaceful and friendly relationship. Remarkably, Mr. Khrushchev was on the same page as President Kennedy. He began persuading Fidel Castro to begin thinking the same way.

In fact, I will bet most United States of Americans do not know that at the moment he was assassinated in Dallas, President Kennedy had a private emissary secretly having lunch with Castro in an attempt to restore normal relations between the United States and Cuba.

But the Pentagon and the CIA most certainly knew about it.

In other words, President Kennedy was taking America in a totally different direction from the one desired by the military-intelligence establishment. If he won the 1964 presidential election, which was likely, he would have had five more years to implement his new vision for the United States of America.

And do not forget: All this was taking place while the Soviets were still brutally occupying Eastern European countries!

During those five years, the Pentagon and the CIA would have had nothing to do but twiddle their thumbs, and they knew it. No more Cold War. No Vietnam War. No invasion of Cuba. No more hostility against the communist world. JFK even proposed a joint United States-Soviet trip to the moon.

Moreover, President Kennedy would never have permitted the Pentagon and the CIA to go into the Middle East and begin killing people. Thus, under Kennedy, there would never have been terrorist retaliation, including the 9-11-01 attacks, and, thus, no war on terrorism. No invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

And no more NATO!!

After all, why would NATO be necessary in a world of peaceful coexistence between the United States and Russia??

Do not forget that its purpose was to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union. If President Kennedy had prevailed in his war with the national-security establishment, NATO would have gone the way of the dodo bird.

Which means: No NATO absorption of Eastern European countries, including Ukraine. No threat to put United States nuclear missies on Russias border and, therefore, no Russia invasion of Ukraine.

In fact, it is a virtual certainty that there would have been no more United States national-security state.

Do not forget that the the Cold War was the reason the federal government was converted to a national-security state in the first place. Given that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA would have been spending their time twiddling their thumbs under Kennedy, it is highly likely that the American people would have demanded the restoration of the limited-government system on which our nation had been founded.

Is understanding the John F. Kennedy assassination essential to getting our nation back on the right track???

You bet it is.

Understanding his assassination provides us with the direction in which we need to head at this point in our nations existence–toward liberty, peace, prosperity, and harmony with the people of the world. His assassination need not have been in vain.

My book is An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story. Buy it at Amazon for $9.95 for the Kindle version and $14.95 for the print version.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!