Word: vietnamization
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...magazine, in the stoned bravado of Bill and Ted and Beavis and Butt-head. (The Bill Murray persona, of blithe sarcasm and weary soldiering-on, could have been invented by Altman; it's a shame the two men never made a film together.) Amid the triage of Korea - read: Vietnam - Altman's super-cool medics found fraternity in cool, cruel...
...would have been out of Vietnam a lot sooner. There would've been a better chance for peace in the Middle East, since that was on his agenda, and I think we would be a more united nation than the divided nation we've become. I don't think he would have talked about red states or blue states...
...PLUS SIDE, HE WAS GREETED AS A LIBERATOR As Bush's visit to Vietnam invites unfortunate parallels to the Iraq war, the White House's web site illustrates its coverage of the trip with a picture of a "South" Vietnamese flag, not in use since the South surrendered to the North in 1975. We imagine Dick Cheney defended the choice, saying the war is, after all, in its "final throes...
Although Bush plans to visit the thriving stock exchange in Ho Chi Minh City--formerly Saigon--this country is still officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. As protocol demanded, he met with the General Secretary of the Communist Party and was photographed with a massive bust of the revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. The President said one of the most poignant moments of the trip was passing the lake that Senator John McCain, as a Navy pilot, was pulled from after his plane was hit while on a bombing run. "He suffered a lot as a result of his imprisonment...
...heart of the city meant that the President was "in the midst of the Vietnamese people all the time" and added that Bush "has been doing a lot of waving." His hosts seemed to want to reciprocate. When CNN International began airing a taped package using footage from the Vietnam War to suggest similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, the local feed was obscured by an overlay of music and a Vietnamese flag. For at least a few days, a graying President could enjoy Vietnam instead of wrestling its ghost...