Vietnam

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My Conversation with Senator Jim Webb

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: President, Ronald Reagan, Vietnam, War, Democrat, Jim Webb, Obama, Mccain, 2008 Election, Novelist, America, Charlie Rose, Virgina, Author, Politics News

I spoke with Webb about how he sees the challenges facing America and the future of the Democratic party.

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Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Green Beret, San Diego, Nitrous Oxide, Bloods, Santa Monica, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Rodney King, Lapd, Otis Chandler, Mayor Tom Bradley, Phoenix, Long Beach Grand Prix, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Hulk Hogan, LA County Sheriff, Nbc, Maryland, National Hot Rod Association, Christmas Trees, Illegal Street Racing, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Crenshaw Boulevard, Orange County, Environment, Big Willie Robinson, Vietnam, Crips, Brotherhood Raceway, Mustang, Ventura, Whipnotic, Nhra, Living News

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

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Bush's Afghan Troop Plan Didn't Work, Neither Will Obama's

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Senate Foreign Relation Committee, US Military, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, War, Joiint Chiefs, Vietnam, George Bush, Iraq, John McCain, Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Troops, Politics News

Obama's Afghan appearance won't stop the criticism from foes that he doesn't know enough about fighting and winning a war, and that his credential as a tough guy on the war against terrorism is suspect.

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Miss Universe in Vietnam -- Isn't That Wild?

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Vietnam, Miss Universe, Iraq War, Vietnam War, Entertainment News

The last time I think a prime time NBC show originated anywhere in Vietnam, it was a Bob Hope special, he was entertaining the troops on some base and it certainly wasn't live.

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Why Bush Has Won in Iraq and the Rest of Us Have Lost

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Scoop Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Iraq, Militarism, Hillary Clinton, Bush, Mike Gravel, Iraq War, Politics News

A Political Odyssey is a parallel history of Mike Gravel's political career and the rise of the American military industry, the expansion of US territory and the growth of presidential power.

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McCain Flips At Legit Question

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, John McCain, ABC News, 2008 Presidential Race, General Wesley Clark, Wesley Clark, Wesley Clark McCain, Votevets, 2008 Election, Politics News

You would assume that given all the whining over General Clark's legitimate point, that John McCain had some obvious answer to the question.

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Gen. Clark and That POW Thing McCain Hates Talking About

Paul Waldman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Media Matters, General Wesley Clark, Vietnam, Media, Wesley Clark, Wesley Clark McCain, Votevets, 2008 Election, Wesley Clark Statement, Politics News

There's a myth out there that McCain is reluctant to exploit his Vietnam POW story for political advantage, so modest and full of integrity is he. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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McCain Camp: Obama Aided Enemy in Vietnam

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama, General Wesley Clark, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Barry Obama, Vietnam, 2008 Election, Politics News

A McCain "Truth Squad" is now alleging that Obama's true vulnerability isn't that he didn't see action in Vietnam, but that he did -- on the side of America's enemies.

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Right On, General Clark. Do Not Back Down.

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, John McCain, John McCain 2008, 21st Century GI Bill, General Wesley Clark, Vietnam, Wesley Clark, Al Qaeda, Straight Talk Express, Votevets, Wesley Clark McCain, 2008 Election, Politics News

While we should all honor McCain's service, that doesn't mean we should necessarily honor it by putting him in the White House to take up George W. Bush's third term.

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Boeing, Tim Russert, Cindy McCain, Nuremburg, Pow, Fisa, Immunity, Campaign, Telecom, Contract, 2008, John Kerry, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Glenn Greenwald, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Tax Return, Airbus, Amnesty, Nbc, Democrat, 08, Air Force, Democrats, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Martin Luther King, Mddotw, Gotcha, Tanker, Wiretapping, 60 Minutes, Warrantless, Russ Feingold, Thomas Eagleton, Cia, Clayton Williams, Jobs, Media, Bush, Republican, Vietnam, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Waterboard, Keating Five, War Crime, Hanoi Hilton, Keating, John McCain, Mental Health, Military Record, Rape, Mlk, Prisoner of War, 2008 Elections, War Criminal, Scandal, 2008 Election, Lobbyist, Meet the Press, Northrop Grumman, Prisoner, 08 Campaign, Steny Hoyer, 2008 Presidential Race, Telecommunications, 1972, Al-Libi, Form 180, Torture, sf180, Media News

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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1963 -- The Year of Hostility and Hope

Byron Williams | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1963, Martin Luther King, 1968, Segregation, Vietnam, Vietnam War, George Wallace, Racism, Politics News

Given our current state, it is understandable that we would remember 1968 and Vietnam. But it was 1963 when we realized that hope and hostility lived, and continue to live, in close proximity.

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Vietnamese Community Tests Free Speech

Peter Scheer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Editorial Independence, Footbath, Ethnic Media, Vietnam, Flag Desecration, Free Speech, Little Saigon, Newspaper, First Amendment, Media, Journalism, Diaspora, Media News

When the biggest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the country, gave offense to its readers in an obscure but controversial article about a work of art, it triggered an explosion of protests among readers.

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The Greatest President We Never Had

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.

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The GameChanger and The Player

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ho Chi Minh, John McCain, Campaign, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Basketball, Vietnam, Performance, The Player, Tayshaun Prince, Jimmy Stewart, Bonifer, Tracy, Ned Beatty, Listening, Gamechanger, Game, Washington, Batman, Cagney, Hepburn, Ensemble, Grand Improvisation, Politics News

The GameChanger is coming off a campaign that ran for seventeen months across the world's media networks, generating transactions worth what must have...

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 1)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military, Military Culture, Scott Mcclellan, Vietnam, Somalia, War, Carrier, Iraq, Navy, Aircraft Carrier, Politics News

Those who belittle McClellan for being a day late and a dollar short are missing the point. However faint his whistle, that he blew it at all showed growth on the part of a man trained as a parrot.

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Is Vietnam the New Russia?

Liz Hamburg | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Russia, Hoi An, Entrepreneur, Vietnam, Business News

I just returned from my friends' wedding in Vietnam. It was a multi-cultural extravaganza. The bride is Bulgarian, the groom American and they both li...

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Old Myths From The Age of Idiocy (The One We're in Now)

Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Reagan, Cold War, Politics, Vietnam, Iraq, War on Terror, Politics News

The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.

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GI's Guide to the New GI Bills

Victor LaPorte | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, American Veteran, Veteran, Iraq, Sen. Webb, Student Veterans of America, Jim Webb, Sen. Graham, Republican, John Warner, Iava, Sen. McCain, Vietnam, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, John McCain, G.I. Bill, Tuition, Sva, Room, 21st Century GI Bill, Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, Democrat, Wwii, Lindsey Graham, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Chuck Hagel, Bipartisan, Sen. Warner, Frank Lautenberg, Student Loans, G.I., Sen. Hagel, S.22, Board, Gi, Sen. Lautenberg, Vfw, Amvets, S22, Politics News

Support our troops and veterans. Support the 21st Century GI Bill!

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Will An Adult Finally Prevail?!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John McCain, President of the United States, Vietnam, George W. Bush, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Senator John McCain, Prisoner of War, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain's life of power and privilege so closely resembles that of George W. Bush that the prospect of a John McCain presidency is cataclysmic.

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King David

Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: General, Insurgence, Combat, Collateral Damage, Al Qaeda, Veterans, Commander, Occupation, Liberation, Ryan Crocker, Vietnam, Iraq, General Petraeus, Counterinsurgency, Politics News

Every army of liberation has a half-life after which it turns into an army of occupation...You can extend that half-life by being considerate of the population ... But over time, again, you are not one of them.

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Reading The Pictures: American Bombing Of Sadr City: Like Qana, But Without The Attention?

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Sadr City, Photography, Iraq War, Sadr City Violence, Green Zone, Vietnam, Iraq, Israel, Qana, Media News

Now that the U.S. is actively bombing Sadr City, what is the difference between what the Americans are doing now, and what the Israelis did in Qana during the '06 Lebanon war?

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Robert F. Kennedy, Bloomington, Indiana, April 24, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Politics, Jon Kyl, Vietnam, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

Today, with the United States entering its sixth year of occupying Iraq, RFK's words about Vietnam still have resonance.

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When The Going Gets Tough, The Iraqi Army Gets Americans

Peter Smith | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Iraq, Vietnam, Iraq War, Sadr City, Politics News

Judging from the fighting spirit of the Iraqi soldiers who abandoned their positions in Sadr City yesterday, they can't bring themselves to believe the American engine will ever quit.

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The Swill from Bill

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bosnia, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, Clinton Bosnia Trip, Lbj, Clinton Bosnia, Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia, Politics News

The subtext I hear from him is this: I'm Bill Clinton, so you have to take whatever I tell you, and by the way you've got to vote for my wife, out of fear if not out of respect.

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"There Is No Substitute for Victory," and Other Flights from Reality

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Korea, John McCain, No Substitute for Victory, Vietnam, Douglas MacArthur, Victory in Iraq, McCain Iraq, Politics News

Sen. McCain promises more than our nation, or the Iraqi nation, can reasonably deliver. His rhetoric denigrates the search for painful but realistic alternatives.

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