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Founding members Siobhan Reynolds Kevin Byers
Vanessa Mullin Alen J Salerian
Solange MacArthur
Celebrating
Robert McNamara
Alen
J Salerian MD
in modern history Robert McNamara will be
remembered as a courageous voice of wisdom for acknowledging past errors. He is
a rare modern statesman -if not the only one- to admit wrongdoing .
It's easy to say I am sorry after you get caught . It takes a real man to be candid about past
errors especially if they were as catastrophic as the Vietnam war.
More than 1.5 million Vietnamese died . We
lost 50,000 young men for nothing. This was a war Pres. Kennedy did not
want. in fact with NSAM
276 on October 20, 1963 he did END
our engagement in Vietnam.
The
basics are simple . Kennedy did not want
war ,many others thought war was good :good for economy, good for
military-industrial complex and the only way to stop the spread of communism.
Pres. Kennedy made it very clear that he was
against any coup d'état in Vietnam. McNamara” In Retrospect” offers evidence of
treason by White House Staff Bundy, Harriman, Hillsman and Forrestall .
He is precise in putting the blame on Bundy
for the decision to reverse the president's policy on Vietnam at the November
20 Hawaii meeting.
His actions suggest he was not surprised by
the assassination. His questionable statements are consistent with McNamara
playing the role of a reluctant participant of the coup d'état led by Bundy and others.
Questionable statements; source in retrospect
I did not know that JFK was shot about 30 minutes after the
fact.
We continued the budget meeting at the Pentagon because we
simply did not know what to do..
McNamara was the most important cabinet member in Washington
DC. (The great majority of the JFK cabinet were on their way to Japan). Should
we believe him?
In Retrospect
Page 68:
The anti-DIEM activists(Hillsman Harriman
Forestall) in Washington continued their
rearguard action. Unbeknownst to Mac and me Hillsman sent Lodge a letter after
reading the presidents instructions to me (the presidential instructions and
Hillsman note clashed- treason?).
Page 70:
Bundy aids Forrestall and Hillsman undermined Kennedy's
Vietnam strategy
secret letter
to Amb. Lodge from Hillsman
dear cabot I'm
taking advantage of Mike forestalls safe hands to deliver this message. (
treason?)
Page 85: Hawai meeting November 2o ‘1963
“I have no specific memory of this
conference. But it made a big impression on Mac Bundy. BUNDY Not me was
responsible for the decisions made in Hawai(the decision to reverse JFK's
orders of withdrawal from Vietnam).
Mc George Bundy never spoke to
McNamara after the publication of in retrospect.
I'm grateful to McNamara for his honesty. He can be a role model for
many of us especially for other world leaders who made catastrophic errors but
would never acknowledge them because they don't have to.
Thank you McNamara rest in peace.
