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maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com - 25 days ago
AP Screws The Pooch On Kennedy, Vietnam & Afghanistan
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The Associated Press screwed the pooch*, in multiple ways, in its reporting of the release by the JFK Presidential Library of previously classified recordings of President Kennedy's meetings in 1963 with advisors about Vietnam.   The discussions involve the unauthorized cable from the ...
thehill.com - 10/30/2009
Murtha is open to raising taxes to fund a troop surge in Afghanistan
— thehill.com — Rep. John Murtha said he is open to raising taxes if President Obama decides to send more... troops to Afghanistan. Read more... (more) Murtha is open to raising taxes to fund a troop surge in ...

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julescrittenden.com - 20 days ago
Harvard Yard
— julescrittenden.com — Home of American heroes. It's always easy to poke fun at the World's Greatest University across the... Charles, all the more so in recent decades as, like much of academia, it sank in a wretched swamp of America-bashing leftism while continuing to ... (more) Harvard Yard

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newsweek.com - 20 days ago
Senator Kerry: Vietnam Could Not Have Been Won | Newsweek Politics
— newsweek.com — We must dispense with a dangerous myth. In an effort to pressure the president to send 40,000... more troops to Afghanistan, armchair commanders have dusted off the old canard that "we could have won in Vietnam if only … " Some revisionists contend we ... (more) Senator Kerry: Vietnam Could Not Have Been Won | ...

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