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(VANITY) Why did the left hate Senator Joe McCarthy?
June 10 2012 | me

Posted on 06/10/2012 6:04:18 PM PDT by moonshot925

He was correct about the Soviet atomic spies.

The whole focus of the Soviet atomic bomb program was to build a copy of the American "Fat Man" implosion device.

Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, David Greenglass, Rosenbergs and the other spies provided all of the info on the bomb to the Soviets.

The first Soviet atomic bomb called "RDS-1", detonated on 29 August 1949 was an almost exact copy of the American "Fat Man".


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: atomic; cold; mccarthy; war
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To: moonshot925

“When you’re catching flak that means you are over the target.”


21 posted on 06/10/2012 6:40:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: moonshot925

Ike is my second-favorite President behind Reagan. Pretty good General, too.


22 posted on 06/10/2012 6:41:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: publius911

This KGB letter is very interesting.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/Voprosy2.html


23 posted on 06/10/2012 6:43:31 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: jtal

Mine as well. Read it 3-4 years ago and think about what he wrote every darn day.


24 posted on 06/10/2012 6:44:17 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: moonshot925

They hate him because,as was the case with Nixon vs Hiss,McCarthy was on the right track on the subject of Commie infiltration of the US Government...an infiltration that continues to this day.


25 posted on 06/10/2012 6:46:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Ayers Was *Not* "Just Some Guy In The Neighborhood")
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To: moonshot925
Ask most Americans what McCarthy did and they will tell you that he blacklisted Hollywood movie stars. Of course McCarthy was a Senator and the hearings concerning Hollywood took place in the House, but the media has been complicit in allowing this false correlation to be common, even encouraging it. The word McCarthy is used as a verb, adjective and noun to describe someone really evil and unfair. We FReepers are far more informed than most.

Young Americans have been led to believe that communism wasn't all that bad. They have no idea about the spread of communism and the Soviets determination to dominate the world.

26 posted on 06/10/2012 6:46:47 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: kosciusko51

>>>Simple. The left was and is a bunch of commies, and they did not like McCarthy pointing out their treason.>>>

And they’re still claiming today that he was wrong. No lie is too big for the leftists.


27 posted on 06/10/2012 6:48:27 PM PDT by kitkat (Obama, ROPE and CHAINS.)
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To: moonshot925

“Eisenhower was not a RINO. He balanced the budget in 1956, 1957 and 1958. He startd the policy of “massive retaliation”. If the Soviets ever threatened us we would unload outr nuclear arsenal on them.”

He also had serious flaws, like selling out the Hungarian freedom fighters.


28 posted on 06/10/2012 6:48:43 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: moonshot925

bfl


29 posted on 06/10/2012 6:50:15 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: moonshot925

Because the Left is a bunch of communists. McCarthy had the guts to call a spade a spade and the Left doesn’t like to hear the truth about themselves. They prefer to hide behind labels like “compassionate” and “pro-democracy” as they subvert the United States.


30 posted on 06/10/2012 6:54:00 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: moonshot925
"why".. you asked.
three simple words...
The truth hurts.
Whitaker Chamber's Witness
great truthful book.

31 posted on 06/10/2012 6:54:53 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: moonshot925

McCarthy was completely vindicated by the Venona Papers (in the Library of Congress, I believe). He was right. We WERE infiltrated.


32 posted on 06/10/2012 6:55:15 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: ScottfromNJ

“He also had serious flaws, like selling out the Hungarian freedom fighters.”

What should he have done? Started WW3?


33 posted on 06/10/2012 6:56:01 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925
Interesting quote, especially compared to what Wernher von Braun said on why he and his colleagues surrendered to American:

"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured."

34 posted on 06/10/2012 6:59:56 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: moonshot925
Interesting quote, especially compared to what Wernher von Braun said on why he and his colleagues surrendered to America:

"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured."

35 posted on 06/10/2012 7:00:23 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: moonshot925

I never understood why McCarthy was so hated but his henchman Bobby Kennedy was so loved.


36 posted on 06/10/2012 7:03:56 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: moonshot925

I never understood why McCarthy was so hated but his henchman Bobby Kennedy was so loved.


37 posted on 06/10/2012 7:04:17 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: moonshot925

Still, he took the easy path of dissing McCarthy and I’ll never forgive him for that.


38 posted on 06/10/2012 7:07:31 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: moonshot925

“What should he have done? Started WW3?”

In 1956 with the Soviets at a huge numerical disadvantage in strategic forces?

How about him not forcing the German government to deny fuel to the aircraft the resistance wanted to use to bring supplies to the freedom fighters, supplies that the anti-communist forces were counting on to sustain their revolt and promised by Eisenhower, sticking their necks out in expectation of that support.

His arm twisting of the German government to deny that support cost the lives of at least 50,000 freedom fighters who were slaughtered in Budapest.


39 posted on 06/10/2012 7:54:20 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: moonshot925

[ Eisenhower was not a RINO ]

Ike appointed the bastard William Brennan to the Supreme Court...

Was be Stupid or a RINO?...
Some say it depends on the day of the week..


40 posted on 06/10/2012 8:13:31 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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