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...just talking to wacko Erica M. Patel ’04 is a Vietnam-style quagmire, then eating an entire meal with her is a surreal, Apocalypse Now-esque nightmare. “I was just getting lunch by myself and reading the Gazette,” recalls a shellshocked Thomas A. Coppola ’03, “when suddenly I was in the rice paddies with Charlie everywhere.” Declared a crazed Patel—as Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” played in her mind?...
...earlier suits challenging the executive branch’s ability to send in troops without a declaration of war from Congress—during the Vietnam and Gulf wars—both failed...
...court will consider the facts now before it—a vaguely worded resolution with a legislative record behind it that does not indicate a declaration of war, and that’s it,” he said. “In Vietnam there was extensive Congressional participation. There were military appropriations, there were numerous draft extensions. Here we have no draft, we have no appropriations, only a vague resolution with vague langauge. We have an unprecedented premeditated invasion of another country. In this situation, we must comply with the Constitution...
...said he was a veteran of the Vietnam War and the peace protests against it, led the chorus of shouts against the police on 53rd Street and First Avenue...
...last time we had an arrogant, know-it-all Secretary of Defense was in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, when Robert McNamara undertook the job of reorganizing the armed services. In the process, he micromanaged the country's military affairs, including the war in Vietnam, which led to the deaths of 58,000 Americans and the wounding of thousands more. How many U.S. servicepeople will die or return home with mangled bodies, and how many Iraqis will be killed, because of Rumsfeld's micromanagement of the war on Iraq? JOHN J. CONNELL San Marino, Calif...