27-10-2009, 08:33 PM
Helen Reyes Wrote:Madam Nhu agrees(fast forward to 5 minutes 8 seconds) with Paul and disagrees with the author of Manufactured Dissent oops Manufacturing Consent, Youth Zionist Movement leader Noam Chomsky.
For a few years in the mid- to late-1970s, we were permitted glimpses of what really happened in Vietnam, and elsewhere, in 1963. Here's one such:
Quote: George T. Altman, “Letters: JFK’s assassination and the war,” The Nation, 21 June 1975, p.738:
Reports urging re-examination of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy have begun to stir throughout the land. These are no longer isolated situations of dissatisfaction with findings that lack the appearance of reason. They show now careful study and determination. Moreover, they suggest connections that go far beyond the assassination of one President of the United States…
Suspecting the existence of such broad connections I wondered if they might include the so-called coup in Vietnam just three weeks before the assassination. Accordingly I went to Europe shortly after the assassination to make a probe of the coup. My particular purpose was to question Madame Nhu, widow of Ngo Dinh Nhu, one of the two leaders struck down in the coup. The other was his brother, Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam. Madame Nhu was active in the government there herself; after the coup she escaped to Rome.
I was able to arrange a meeting with her at the Vatican. I questioned her closely, through her son, on the events which preceded the coup, seeking especially to learn whether, in her opinion, Mr. Kennedy had supported it.
Madame Nhu informed me that, contrary to reports published here, the two brothers had sought to negotiate an end to the conflict, and that it was to prevent this that the coup was carried out. She declared emphatically that Mr. Kennedy had activated the brothers in this effort to achieve peace; he had no part in fomenting the coup.
In my opinion, the war, the coup and the Kennedy assassination are closely linked. Thus the necessity of covering up the assassination of a President with the insanely empty notion that no one but the reported assassin had any part in it. Thus also the long history of assassination of foreign leaders, for a single purpose, the maintenance of armed conflict – and always on the same side, the support of large industry and wealth.
And if a coup in Vietnam, why not another in this country, for the same purpose? Our government has shown itself equal to the task.
A Kennedy peace-initiative run directly from the White House without recourse to Langley and/or State? But, of course, as the apertura a sinistra demonstrated.