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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
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Originally posted by: starkiller
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I'm not going to pick 5, I'll pick 10.

PLEASE do keep in mind that I'm listing the most INFLUENTIAL persons of the last century, and by influential I mean people whose actions changed our world. OK? I'm not a nazi.

1- Hitler
2- Ghandi
3- Lenin
4- JFK
5- Churchill
6- Gorbatchov
7- Einstein
8- Jonh Paul II
9- Stalin
10- Mandela

And why not mention GL too? I mean, can you imagine the world today without Star Wars?
Not to say he wasn't a good president, but why pick JFK over someone like FDR or Reagan??

JFK was a Joke... How do you have Gorby and not Reagan? Why Mandela over MLK Jr? And Church Hill over FDR? (there would not have been an england save for FDR and Hitlers over zealousness.)

* sigh* OK, let's do it.

JFK: if Nixon had won over JFK, the world would be a nuclear radioactive wasteland today.

Gorbachov: If there was only Reagan and no Gorbatchov, the Iron Curtain would still be there. I guarantee you. OK maybe we CAN consider Reagan if you find that the Iran-Contras was a major happening in worlds history. Or that his films changed the world.

Churchill: OK I'll give you Roosevelt.

Mandela: You're right, I give you MLKjr and Steve Bilko with Mandela. And Rose Parks (is that her name)?

Gorbachev? What did he do besides surrender? He was the leader of a totalitarian system that needed to be destroyed. Reagan (and Maggie and JPII) left him no options. And the only reason Reagan's administration did what they did with Iran-Contra is because the Democratically controlled congress refused to fund anti-communists in the Western hemisphere, in other words: Gave tacit aid to the Soviet flunkies in Central and South America. Or maybe the popular leftist views that Truman won the Cold War by losing China and Eastern Europe to the communists is right. Or that they really did have 75 years of bad weather and that's why communism didn't work.

Nixon: All he did was get us out of Vietnam (which JFK got us into, BTW) by bombing Cambodia then going directly to the Chinese. And, refresh my memory...who had the world on the bring of nuclear holocaust, JFK or Nixon? *cough* Missles of October *cough*

Mandella? Don't get me started.