So who's part of the 29%?

RazorOye said

which helped us avoid a war... not embroil us in another one

and he stood up to his cabinet members - his access to privy knowledge notwithstanding

I still don't see how Bush taking us to war in Iraq under those pretenses is akin to Kennedy avoiding WWIII

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Because the American public and Kennedy's advisors wouldn't know what Kennedy knew until 40 years after the fact.

Last time I checked up on this story, the U.S. still would not confirm or deny that Khruschev had warned Kennedy about the battlefield nukes and that it was a Politburo decision. But, enough former Soviet officials have confirmed it to make it the most likely answer to the question of why Kennedy was so dead-set against a U.S. ground assault.

What will we know in 40 years? Who knows?

Champ, here's a few background references about Khruschev and the Soviet tactical nukes.

http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/student/frauke.grosshennig/Perspectives.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/press4.htm
http://math.info/cmc/?feed=rss2