John F Kennedy (35th, 1961-1963)
What about Kennedy? Kennedy was one of the worst. Kennedy, first of all, invaded South Vietnam. During the Eisenhower administration they had blocked a political settlement in 1954, and instituted a kind of Latin American- style terror state which had killed maybe 60 or 70 thousand people by the end of the Eisenhower period, and it had instigated a response, a reaction that Kennedy recognized couldn't be controlled internally, so he simply invaded. In 1962, about a third of the bombing missions were carried out by the US Air Force in the South by US planes with South Vietnamese insignia but US pilots. He authorized napalm. He began the use of chemical weapons to destroy food crops. They began programs which drove millions of people into what amounted to concentration camps. That's aggression. In the case of Cuba it was just a massive campaign of international terrorism (Operation Mongoose) which almost led to the destruction of the world, led to the missile crisis, and we can continue. Again, these are all indictable offenses. - Noam Chomsky - The Crimes of U.S. Presidents/Noam-Chomsky
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- 35th president
- In Office:
- January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
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