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...Arkansas focus group were conflicted; ultimately, they believed the Bush Administration should do whatever was necessary to extract information from the "terrorists." The consultants were unanimous in their recommendation to the candidate: Don't talk about it. Kerry had entered American politics in the early 1970s, protesting the Vietnam War, including the atrocities committed by his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. But he followed his consultants' advice, never once mentioning Abu Ghraib-or the Justice Department memo that "broadened" accepted interrogation techniques-in his acceptance speech or, remarkably, in his three debates with Bush...
...pouring into the streets of cities from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to vent their outrage. They were illegal immigrants, and their American-citizen children emerging from behind their shield of invisibility, plus legions of voters who count the newcomers as family, friends and neighbors, in numbers "bigger than the Vietnam War demonstrations," McCain says. "I never could have predicted that we would have 20,000 people in Arizona or half to three-quarters of a million in Los Angeles." Something almost as remarkable started to happen inside the Capitol. One by one, Senate colleagues started coming to him privately whom...
...arrested Guinean soldiers here in Liberia. How can they come to keep the peace? We've captured Nigerian weapons from Doe's soldiers. How can you bring a jaguar into the house and say he has come to make the peace? ECOWAS is going to make this another Vietnam -- a war that never ends...
...lies. War supporters keep trying to point back to 9-11 as the reason for this war. But it is clear there were no ties between Suddam and Bin Laden. I suggest to everyone to read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech "Beyond Vietnam" which he delivered at the Riverside Baptist Church in New York, and see for themselves the eerie simularities between the Vietnam war and this Iraqi mess. My brother is a decorated Vietnam vet. I remember the way that war changed him. He wasn't the same man. He only talked to me once about...
...will only be able to tell whether the Iraq war was worth it in probably 20 years. I believe in time it will grudgingly be thought of as worth it. Was the Vietnam war worth it. Yes, in the long run it was. Vietnam, especially North Vietnam, was an isolationist nation, not wanting to be part of the greater world. That war forced it to open up. Today, Vietnam is one of America's best associates, in trade and travel. That war led to America opening up to China. Wars, history has shown, have facilitated and consolidated the world...