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latimes.com - 4/16/2009
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IF YOU THINK the growing similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is tragic but inadvertent, you're not being cynical enough. During the first years of the Iraq war, any resemblance to Vietnam was the result of the Bush administration's disastrous miscalculations. But today, the Iraq war is looking ...
sourcewatch.org - 4/9/2009
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From SourceWatch Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI)
a Democratic Party -oriented coalition of groups that includes...
MoveOn.org Political Action, SEIU , USAction , Campaign for America's Future , Win Without War , VoteVets.org , United States ...
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Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
michaelyon-online.com - 4/10/2009
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Commentary: Fallen brothers found - and lost By
Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers As with so...
much in life and in death, there was news this week that was joyous and sad and bittersweet all at once for the small community of the Vietnam ...
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Vanished Soldiers: American Heroes Come Home
latimes.com - 4/11/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- The amount of U.S.
money spent on the Iraq war will surpass the...
cost of Vietnam by the end of the year, making it the second most expensive military conflict in American history, behind World War II, according to Pentagon ...
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Cost of Iraq war will surpass Vietnam's by year's end - ...
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DoD Hires LA Times Columnist Who Belittled Al Qaeda Threat
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Called the surge in Iraq a “feckless plan” which had “no realistic likelihood that it will lead to an enduring solution in Iraq.” [See here] ...
Today’s OMGWSS: Obama’s New Pentagon Adviser, Rosa Brooks
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... Also that year, she called the surge in Iraq a “feckless plan” that is “too little too late” with “no realistic likelihood that it will lead to an enduring solution in Iraq.” The surge was widely credited with helping to stabilize Iraq. ...
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