Vietnam War

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• Jesse Ventura: Fight Club Special

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 623
  Warning: This video contains extreme language. Not suitable for younger viewers. Click here to view the embedded video. The argument is initiated over a disagreement on Afghanistan war policy and ‘truther’ comments made by the former Governor of Minnesota.  Ventura is a former Navy Seal and veteran of ...
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• M2 Browning machine gun

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 143
  M2 Browning machine gun John Browning testing his prototype .50 caliber heavy machine gun, circa 1919 .50 Cal M2 Browning 12.7mm The browning M2 machinegun M2 Browning .50 cal. Machine Gun @ heavy wapen range Afghanistan The M2 ...
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• FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media.Links to interesting news and analysisAnother disproof to climate doomsterismA sitrep about from Europe about the swine flu ...
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• Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan Hardly a Surprise

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 703
  By William Pfaff There was much disappointment on Tuesday night about Barack Obama’s decision to widen the war in Afghanistan, but there can have been no real surprise. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries December 2, 2009 The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney December 2, 2009 They Don’t Check ...
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• History Professor’s New Book Takes First Scholarly Look at Role of Junior Officers in Vietnam

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 487
  Only a few months after 2nd Lt. William Calley apologized for his role in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, a new book by a Texas Tech University history professor attempts to set the record straight on the role of junior officers during the conflict. “Not a Gentleman’s War: An Inside View of Junior ...
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• Toxic Honeywell plant slated to close, but leaves behind toxic legacy

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 136
  The 60-year-old Honeywell plant in Kansas City, Missouri is closing its doors, and the company is moving to a new $673 million facility. Honeywell has already paid $65 million to clean up the site, but according to the U.S. Department of Labor, its workers have already been exposed to 785 toxic substances. One of ...
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• Rep. Kennedy milked confrontation with Bishop Tobin for political reasons, expert says

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Representative Patrick Kennedy Boston, Mass., Dec 3, 2009 / 07:48 am (CNA).- Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) has decided to pull out of the Communion controversy after unsuccessfully “milking" his confrontation with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, said Joe Fitzgerald, a political analyst from the Boston ...
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• Charybdis or Scylla?

  
  Anna's Clue Tank — Authority: 108
  President Obamas speech in front of the cadets at West Point, who maybe marching off to Afghanistan to lead other young soldiers soon, left many sick to their stomachs. In this speech, the President tried to navigate the treacherous waters between the Scylla of the likes of Michael Moore and the Charybdis of those on ...
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• Mass grave of Vietnamese soldiers discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Hanoi, Dec 3 (DPA) Authorities have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of at least 25 Vietnamese soldiers killed in combat 41 years ago, an official said Thursday.“They belonged to a commando company killed in 1968 while trying to liberate Quang Ngai prison,” said Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trong Luyen, ...
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• Chairman Kerry Statement On President’s West Point Speech

  
  The Democratic Daily — Authority: 110
  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry released the following statement this evening following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan : “I believe that the President defined a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation-building exercise. A key component of that mission is providing that ...
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• Obama uses V-word in Afghan speech, and we don’t mean victory

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 677
  President Barack Obama uttered it four times in his speech at West Point about the way forward in Afghanistan. It was the V-word that is often linked with the Q-word that conjures up the ghost of a past war that still is a raw wound in the American psyche. Obama charged head-on to try and address one of the key ...
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• The Hollow Politics of Escalation

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  The next days and weeks will bring an avalanche of hype about insisting on measurable progress and shifting burdens onto the Afghan army -- while the U.S. military expands the war. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Will Obamas war become his Vietnam?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Will Obamas war become his Vietnam? Washington (CNN) -- As President Obama prepares to announce that hes sending more troops to Afghanistan, comparisons to the war in Vietnam are often invoked. But experts say while there are similarities between the two conflicts, there are more differences. U.S. and coalition forces ...
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• Obama’s Afghan speech

  
  Phuck Politics - Titty fucking Nancy Pelosi one post at a time. — Authority: 126
  This man is a pussy. I’m going to save everyone from watching Obama’s blow job to the defense industry by summarizing what he will say tonight in one sentence: I’m increasing the troops in Afghanistan by 30,000 because the military owns me, and there’s nothing you fuckers can do about it. You’re ...
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• Olbermann offers Obama an out

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 146
  Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Afghanistan is being summarized as telling President Obama to Get Out Now . Olbermann’s words stir our enthusiasm, but he leaves damning loopholes for my taste. The MSNBC newsman conditions his advice to the president with “unless you are right.” Then at the end, showing ...
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• All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

  
  The Reading Zone — Authority: 417
  Wow .  That is all I can say about Ann E. Burg’s All The Broken Pieces . I picked this off my pile of Cybils nominees and began reading without looking at the flap cover. I was caught completely off guard by how amazing this verse novel is! Matt Pin is haunted by his memories of Vietnam. He was born a bui ...
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• *As Obama’s Afghan War Drums Beat Madly- American War History In Verse-The Very, Very Short Course- Bob Dylan’s “With God On Our Side”

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on to the title to link to YouTube’s film clip of Bob Dylan performing his early sardonic classic “With God On Our Side”, with Joan Baez. (At least, classic, through the early Cold War period. An updating is in order.) Markin comment: As apolitical, or anti-political, as Bob Dylan turned out to be, in ...
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• The Nam: A War Comic About People

  
  ComicsAlliance.com — Authority: 694
  Filed under: Marvel American war comics, over the past sixty years, have been political in a couple of interesting ways. Back in the 40s and onward, war comics were generally aimed at children, so nuance wasnt even remotely on the radar, and very patriotic and ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
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• Legends of Vietnam: Super Tweet

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  In 1967, four months after delivery, the new A-37A entered combat in South Vietnam. (Roger Moseley) From Air And Space Smithsonian: Yeah. The A-37 was small. So was Napoleon. Looking for Mach-busting splendor in million-dollar wonders from the heavies of the U.S. military-industrial complex? This aint it. The ...
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• Stories of Women Who Served in Vietnam Needed

  
  MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL — Authority: 126
  Author Kerry Pardue sent out this request: I am beginning to write another book and it is about women who have served during war. The women who served in Vietnam are the forgotten ones and not considered to have endured any hardships, many are closet vets. I want their stories to be told and shared as our ...
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