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02-16-2007, 11:52 PM
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#1 | | Hairy one of Old Judea
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Which people do you think deserves the title of a 'Great world leader?'
I would be interested to see people's picks and to hear WHY you chose who you chose. Keep it to about 5 folk (otherwise this thread will get very long.)
I'll wait for a day or two to put my picks in.
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02-16-2007, 11:54 PM
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Country:  | Hmmm, by "great" I will take that to mean most influential. I'll have to think about this a little bit...
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02-17-2007, 04:50 AM
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#3 | | Der Crewchief
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02-17-2007, 06:40 AM
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02-17-2007, 06:42 AM
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02-17-2007, 02:36 PM
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Country: | I could put the popular most obvious ones out there, but I would like to put Lestor Pearson up there, for pretty much inventing the whole idea of peace keeping security forces.
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02-17-2007, 03:12 PM
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| If going by post WW2 years, then Eisenhower and JFK rank quite high.
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02-17-2007, 03:19 PM
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#8 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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02-17-2007, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ  JFK was good looking and made great speeches. Other than that he was a big sh*thead... | Joe never misses an opportunity to spew venom on the kennedys 
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02-17-2007, 06:21 PM
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#10 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by mkloby Joe never misses an opportunity to spew venom on the kennedys | Yep - and I was being polite! 
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02-17-2007, 06:28 PM
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| Apart from the Space Race and the speach in Berlin, can anyone think of anything that JFK did right? | |
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02-17-2007, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Glider Apart from the Space Race and the speach in Berlin, can anyone think of anything that JFK did right? | Cuban missle crisis excluding Bay of Pigs and the fact he was the first non-protestant American leader
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02-17-2007, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by pbfoot Cuban missle crisis excluding Bay of Pigs and the fact he was the first non-protestant American leader | Have to give you that. | |
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02-17-2007, 06:45 PM
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#15 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | Aside from that he didn't do much except get the US involved in a bunch of covert activity all over the world. I read somewhere there was more covert operations under Kennedy than Eisenhower, Johnson and Nixon combined!
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