(FYI, though this submission meets all their rules for posting, I received a REJECTION notice when crossposting to
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Chris Matthew's question this week about the US President's power to go to war led to revealing responses from GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rudy Giuliani I analyze in my 3 minutes 56 second YouTube video available at:
Ron Paul Beats Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani on War Leadership? If you prefer using an embedded video player:
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I got the material I fairly use in my video from a variety of sources.
To support the analysis in my video, I include clips of the October 9, 2007, Republican presidential candidate debate, the full transcript of which is available at:
NY Times debate transcript I took a short clip from an October 11 segment on "The Colbert Report" that is available on the comedy central website at:
Colbert Report clip You can get more information about Rudy Giuliani's bad decisionmaking leading to picking the World Trade Center as his emergency command center at:
BraveNewFilms Video: The Real Rudy Command Center You can get first hand information about JFK's good decisionmaking during the Cuban Missile Crisis at:
Recently released audio of Cuban Missile Crisis meetings And, you can get more information about the phenomenon of "groupthink, among other places, at:
Groupthink webpage And, as always, I appreciate all feedback :-)