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...missile programs. Conservative Republicans had long pilloried that policy as giving in to extortion, and administration officials had signaled in March that the Bush team wants to reopen talks on the 1994 agreement under which the U.S. and Japan undertook to provide energy aid and help North Korea build civilian nuclear reactors if the Koreans ended a nuclear program that could equip them with weapons-grade plutonium. Administration officials were unhappy at the level of verification provided for in the treaty, but North Korea may be reluctant to reopen discussion on a done deal. Pyongyang wants to move forward...
...investigation appeared this week in a bylined article in the New York Times Magazine and on a segment of 60 Minutes II, for which Vistica received a producer's credit. These reports take a condemning view of the raid, strongly suggesting that Kerrey is wrong when he says the civilian deaths were the tragic consequence of the fog of war, and that the former squad mate, Gerhard Klann, is right when he says the killings were a deliberate execution. Now Kerrey faces a whole army of reporters seeking to cut through the shifting memories to get to the truth...
...friends who were killed. But the experience is not something that torments me. It disgusted me but didn't torment me. If I had killed women and children, I would imagine that would haunt me. In the brutality of combat, life is cheap. Then you come back to the civilian world, where life is precious. It's surreal. The only thing that kept me sane was reading Catch...
...investigation appeared this week in a bylined article in the New York Times Magazine and on a segment of 60 Minutes II, for which Vistica received a producer's credit. These reports take a condemning view of the raid, strongly suggesting that Kerrey is wrong when he says the civilian deaths were the tragic consequence of the fog of war, and that the former squad mate, Gerhard Klann, is right when he says the killings were a deliberate execution. Now Kerrey faces a whole army of reporters seeking to cut through the shifting memories to get to the truth...
Vietnam was some omelet. But it was a war, after all--a tragic, confusing, mishandled business in which the enemy merged with the civilian population, and the girl who did the laundry might blow you up with a grenade hidden beneath the folded underwear. Brave, decent men like Bob Kerrey got hurt or killed and sometimes made mistakes that killed the innocent...