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[Michael Moore - This Just In] Patriot missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War: The Vietnam vets, spurred on by the court martial of Lt William Calley, who had ordered the infamous My Lai massacre, wanted to turn a tide too - against public opinion, to demonstrate that the execution of hundreds of innocent villagers in 1968 was not an isolated incident as so many believed. The Winter Soldier event received little coverage in America, but was the subject of an internationally acclaimed documentary of the same name.
[Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions and Fulminations] US should Conscript Politician kids into the Military like UK does ...: There is a certain moral authority to govern-setting an example-sharing in the sacrifice initiated by the White House–that escapes both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney–both early draft dodgers who were gung-ho for the Vietnam war so long as someone else in their age group was doing the fighting.
[Comments for One Utah] Comment on Return of the Winter Soldiers by Richard Warnick: said Aaron Hughes, an Iraq veteran who initiated the new Winter Soldier effort. “We hear from the pundits, we hear from the politicians, we hear from the generals, but we don’t hear from the soldiers who’ve walked the streets, who’ve been there and know what it’s about.
[Tribe.net: ! * POLITICS * !] ILWU to Shut Down Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq ...: For Workers Strikes Against the War! ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan In a major step for the US labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that .
[National Post - Full Comment] Theo Caldwell on John McCain: Lessons from Vietnam: The so-called “Rumsfeld Strategy” in Iraq ”” against which McCain inveighed from the outset ”” prioritized technology and speed over numbers, and thereby provided too few troops to secure the peace.
[Iraq & Vietnam War Stories] WINTER SOLDIER REVISITED - The Original Hearings and Film about ...: groups that are already seeking to discredit those who speak out. The same tactics were used against the Vietnam Veterans Against the War 37 years ago. John Kerry was among those who participated in those original testimonials and the criticism against his words resurfaced to derail his election campaign in 2004. There are still those who strongly believe his failure to answer his critics whose lies and distortions were outrageous, resulted in his defeat.
[SWJ Blog] More, from CNAS...: He was deployed to Iraq in 2003, helped write the Army’s counterinsurgency field manual, and is the author of Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam.
[Politics and Government in America] The Lessons From Vietnam The Left Didn’t Learn: Just in passing he also mentions a statement from Sir Robert Thompson, Britian’s premier expert on counter-insurgency, head of the British Advisory Mission during the Vietnam War and an advisor to President Nixon. Sir Robert said “perhaps the major lesson of the Vietnam Wars is: do not rely on the United States as an ally.”
[Gathering of Eagles: New York] That Old Lying Media: […] Gathering of Eagles: New York wrote an interesting post today on That Old Lying MediaHere’s a quick excerptCRITICS of the war in Iraq like to claim they “oppose the mission” but “s upport the troops…. […]
[The New Nixon Blog] The Reality of Tet: William Westmoreland’s optimistic assessment of the situation in Vietnam stood in such sharp contrast to “the sheer scope and ferocity of the offensive and the vivid images of the fighting on the nightly news” that many Americans decided that Westmoreland and the Johnson Administration had been lying to them.
[Zeligasa's Weblog] Battleground Edition- North Carolina leans blue: Those people should be purple with rage after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the U.S. to disband a checkpoint around Sadr City, a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, and the U.S. complied.
[Emil Adelaide Blog] The Dems debate: Dodd is asked whether he regrets his vote for Roberts on the SUPCO (he’s the only one on the dais who voted in favor of him.) Dodd says he’s disappointed in Roberts, then he quickly moves on to Alito, and his history of voting pro-life.
[THE "G" BLOG @wordpress.com] Study on Iraq war planning found blame led right to the Oval ...: One of the great strengths of the American Army that was reborn in the wake of the disastrous Vietnam War has been a rigorous After-Action Review and Lessons Learned process that’s conducted after field training exercises and battlefield combat.
[mytroops Blog] Changing American Soldier - US News “gets it”: observes Montague, now a master’s student in the prestigious School of Advanced Military Studies at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth. “If you have fewer and fewer people who have served, you have to worry about whether you can have an intelligent conversation about how the military can best serve the country.”
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, March 3, 2008: The Bush administration is blocking an inquiry into the delay-plagued construction of the $736m US embassy in Baghdad, a senior Democrat in Congress said today. Henry Waxman, who is chairman of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives, asked US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice today to explain why her department certified the embassy as “substantially completed”
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