To: muir_redwoods
To resolve the matter we agreed to remove missiles from Greece. Are you sure it was Greece, and not Turkey?
100 posted on
11/22/2013 8:31:49 PM PST by
Mark17
(Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
To: Mark17; muir_redwoods
“Are you sure it was Greece, and not Turkey?”
The missiles were Jupiter intermediate range missiles deployed in Turkey. They were effectively obsolete and vulnerable to Soviet attack by 1963 so removing them wasn’t much of a concession.
103 posted on
11/22/2013 8:39:30 PM PST by
Pelham
(Obamacare, the vanguard of Obammunism)
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