How would Bush and Rice have handled the Cuban missile crisis if they were in power then?

Question

this is how it ended by the way

"Just over a month after the crisis began, President Kennedy terminates the quarantine when Khrushchev agrees after several weeks of tense negotiations at the UN to withdraw Soviet IL-28 nuclear bombers from Cuba.'

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Reports/Cuba/timeline.shtml

Answer 1

we would have had a war, most of the east and gulf coast would have been destroyed

cheney is getting ready to start the war anyways, he's a sick miserable excuse for a human being

Answer 2

perhaps you will get to see just that. kinda, sorta. it's called the Polish Missile-Interceptor Crisis. but the roles are reversed, and Khrushchev and the Soviet Union are history. now it's Putin and the Russian Federation.

with all the other conflicts that we don't need, the cold war is back.

oh, and please remember george herbert walker bush was involved in both of these incidences.

Answer 3

Probably with a botched invasion like Iraq, followed by sanctions, like those against Iran.

Y'know, like the Bay of Pigs and the blockade.

Actually, the parralles between the JFK and Dubya presidencies are striking. JFK used overblown fears of a 'missle gap,' for instance, while Dubya used overblown fears of WMDs.

Answer 4

Most likely, an invasion would have took place. The United States would have declared war on Cuba and the U.S. would probably lose.

Answer 5

i don't be conscious of if Kennedy might've been categorised a liberal or no longer, yet atleast, in assessment to immediately's lilly - livered Dems, he had some backbone approximately him. it is how he have been given by using that disaster with out having the full eastern 0.5 of the USA nuked by utilising the Soviet Union...

Answer 6

This scenario was covered in the movie Dr. Strangelove.

Answer 7

They would have nuked Cuba within five hours, and invaded Iceland.

The invasion would cost two trillion dollars and be run by Blackwater,

Answer 8

Cuba would be free. Kennedy had a carrier ready to go to help the democratic revolutionaries. For whatever political BS reason, he choked. Too many times, we have abandoned those who fight for freedom in the face of oppression. Repubs and Dems. There's enough blame to go around.

Answer 9

Sounds a little like Libya.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/19/bush.libya/index.html
Since there is no way to determine how someone would have reacted to a crisis over 35 years ago, the question seems a little baited to me.

Answer 10

WW111