Mckinley's War Message
Summary: Mckinley starts his address by outlining the major pieces of the Cuban Insurrection, and how they have negatively affected the US and Cuba. Next the President offers reasoning as to how US intervention is the only way to swiftly end the conflict, and then lists the four main reasons that the US should intervene. (To avoid further barbarities, the lack of a protective government in Cuba, damage to US business on Cuba, and most importantly, the attacks of US vessels and shipping by sides unable to protect neutral ships). To close, he informs Congress that he has done all he can Constitutionally to solve the issue, and he now needs their help. This would result in the following Spanish-American war.
(Half a century after the US granted Cuban independence, we attempted to re-take Cuba from the Communists in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion).
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