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...especially incensed by a remark the U.S. politician made back in 1971. In that year, Kennedy introduced a Senate resolution demanding the ouster of British military forces from Northern Ireland - or Ulster as the Irish called that part of the island. Said Kennedy: "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam... The conscience of America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost...
...Silhouette. J.F.K. greeted Dr. Manhattan, the preternatural, irradiated blue man, at the White House and was gunned down by the splenetic, cigar-chomping Comedian. A U.S. astronaut walked on the moon and found Dr. M. waiting for him. In 1971, President Richard Nixon sent Manhattan and the Comedian to Vietnam; the war was over within a week, and Nixon was elected to a third term. The Watchmen were feted everywhere, until Nixon turned on his old abettors and outlawed the whole crew. By 1985, America was an open sewer of drugs and porn, and the Comedian was defeated, defenestrated, dead...
...stern defender of the right, he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary Communists and, a month before his death, was ripping at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But sometimes he just got fed up with policies he'd supported; Harvey famously reversed himself on Vietnam, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong...
...Death, you can practically hear the flies buzz over the bloated corpses.) The U.S. censored war photos during World War I, a policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs of the wounded and the dead helped turn public opinion against the conflict--of which George H.W. Bush was no doubt mindful. As President, he instituted the latest ban on coffin pictures in 1991, at the beginning...
...politically treacherous. Already, John McCain has made it clear that his position on Afghanistan will be the same as it was on Iraq - in favor of more troops. Obama could easily find himself in the same sort of hawk-vs.-dove debate that has boggled American Presidents from Vietnam to Iraq. Traditionally, Presidents favor more troops - and precipitously lose public support. In this case, Obama's margin for error is minuscule, given the enormity of the economic crisis. He simply can't get bogged down in Afghanistan. And he simply can't allow al-Qaeda and the Taliban free rein...