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...Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri Blue Point, New York Who Owns the Next Century? Jeremy Rifkin's book the European Dream [Oct. 18] argues that the next century belongs to enlightened Europeans, not money-obsessed, hyperviolent Americans. I wonder whether it has occurred to Rifkin that America's economy and society...
...cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth of the penal system should be construed as a fiscal burden and ineffective crime deterrent. What should help Democrats convey this message is that it is actually true—but after watching Kerry get punked about his tour in Vietnam by a guy who couldn’t even show up for National Guard duty, who really knows...
BEST REASON TO DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR PURCHASE BEFORE LEAVING BARNES & NOBLE Unfit for Command, an attack on Kerry's Vietnam service by John E. O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, and Unfit Commander, an anti-Bush book by Glenn W. Smith...
...Vietnam War seemed, at times, to have almost as large a presence in the campaign as the war in Iraq, it may be, at least in part, because of John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer and former swift-boat commander whose feud with Kerry dates back more than 30 years. The first time O'Neill's anger at Kerry surfaced was in 1971, when the fellow naval officers debated the Vietnam War on The Dick Cavett Show, with Kerry speaking out against the war and O'Neill defending it. This time out, O'Neill, 58, and the group he helped...
...every time I see him and passes his days watching Fox News, eating peanuts and waiting for his retirement checks. My mother’s beauty regimen of Oil of Olay and sunscreen no longer fends off the fine lines and wrinkles. “When I come from Vietnam I young babe,” she said on her birthday last month with a hint of melodrama. “Today I old woman.” My sister, who once seemed old as the 16-year old carting me around in her Pontiac, has already turned...