From: J. L. (milveh@dslextreme.com)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 17:54:35 PDT
Anyone else see the recent History Channel's special on the sinking of the
Just think, if we had not followed up by declaring war there's a good chance
battleship Maine? Seems pretty conclusive now, Adm. Rickoven and his team
were right, the Maine was not sunk by a Spanish mine or by any other
deliberate act. She was sunk due to a slow burning coal fire adjacent to
the munitions locker that just overheated the gunpowder and ka-boooom! Now
there's a big oops.
Spain would still own Cuba, then we would have never had a Cuban missile
crisis and Fidel might be running a pedicab in Havana or working Ho's on the
Esplanade!
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