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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips A Time To Break Silence clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken clippers remarks: "Americas soul. .... can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over." - Martin Luther King. A different war, a different time, but MLKs words still ring true. Clip Source: www.indiana.edu "A time to break silence" "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their governments policy, especially in time of war. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. This I believe all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers. Tags: iraq, war, vietnam, martin luther king, wisdom, speech zum Artikel... Anzeige The Battle of Dien Bien Phu clipped by: ratilfar Clip Source: youtube.com [Video] Tags: dien bien phu, vietnam, war zum Artikel... Vietnam Veterans Memorial Defaced clipped by: ColoradoRight clippers remarks: Just what does it say about our country when our veterans have to come out to protect the memorials that all our people have erected to honor the service of all our veterans? Something that is not good. Clip Source: www.humanevents.com Last Friday a ?light, oily substance? was sprayed on 50 to 60 feet of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall panels and paving stones in an act of apparent vandalism Some veterans groups are planning to parallel the demostrations with lines of volunteers blocking access to the Vietnam Wall and other memorials they believe may be targeted for defacment. The assumption that Friday?s discovery was an act of vandalism connected with the demonstrations seems a logical conclusion. ?Who ever did this, if they were trying to enrage the Vietnam Veterans, they did,? said Riley. ?We have been stomped on and ridiculed and spit on simply because we went when our nation called. Scruggs who is also founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund said that there is a belief that the recent vandalism was motivated by "MoveOn.org type of people" but he hopes that no one is accusing them at this point. Tags: veterans, vietnam, memorial, protest zum Artikel... Denis Johnsons New Novel: Tree of Smoke clipped by: ouyangwulong clippers remarks: There are a few tribes that hunt monkeys, but for almost anyone else, the small details of surprising humanity in monkeys makes killing one feel unsettlingly close to home. Denis Johnson starts his latest book, Tree of Smoke, with the killing of a monkey, on the day of Kennedys assassination, amidst the tension that you can feel propelling the characters like a wound up rubber band into the chaos of the Vietnam War. And it is this tension that rings in my ears, now that my generation has also known that dreadful tension - 2003 like 1914, like 1939, like 1963, when society was already set on its terrible path and it was to late to pull the behemoth of humanity of its course... Clip Source: www.nytimes.com He stepped carefully, thinking about snakes and trying to be quiet because he wanted to hear any boars before they charged him. He was aware that he was terrifically on edge. From all around came the ten thousand sounds of the jungle, as well as the cries of gulls and the far-off surf, and if he stopped dead and listened a minute, he could hear also the pulse snickering in the heat of his flesh, and the creak of sweat in his ears. If he stayed motionless only another couple of seconds, the bugs found him and whined around his head. Seaman Houston took the monkeys meager back under the rifles sight. He raised the barrel a few degrees and took the monkeys head into the sight. Without really thinking about anything at all, he squeezed the trigger. Seaman Houston was terrified to witness its convulsions there. With fascination, then with revulsion, he realized that the monkey was crying. Its breath came out in sobs, and tears welled out of its eyes when it blinked. Tags: literature, denis johnson, tree of smoke, vietnam, war zum Artikel... Now Bush says Iraq IS like Vietnam... clipped by: thinkingblue clippers remarks: Bush will say just about ANYTHING to keep his war going, going going. It is so obvious, he wants his despicable war to continue until the end of his incumbency, so he can dump it in someone elses lap and Im sure hes hoping that someone will be a Democrat. Then perhaps all the blame of this sad, quagmire of a war will not be associated with his name in the history books... Thats what HE THINKS! Clip Source: www.youtube.com [Video] The domestic PR war over Iraq is about to begin in earnest. When the war in Iraq did not progress as quickly as the Administration had hoped, President Bush resisted comparisons with Vietnam. In 2005, he said, "I dont see the parallels." But as this discretionary war has dragged on and on, he has relented. Almost a year ago, he conceded in an interview that the escalation of violence last October might be comparable to the Tet offensive, which marked a turning point in Vietnam. Wednesday Bush is going one step further. In a speech to the VFW in Missouri, Bush will argue that Iraq is like Vietnam ... but unlike Vietnam, we shouldnt pull out because our departure wont stop the killing. [Reminder: he did not serve in Vietnam.] In other words: lets think of Iraq like a mulligan, a do-over: we caused a bloodbath by leaving Vietnam so if we dont leave Iraq, there wont be a bloodbath. Like there isnt a bloodbath already? Tags: iraq, war, bush, quagmire, vietnam, political, politics zum Artikel... Bushs Vietnam references suspect clipped by: princessrachel19 Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com the slaughter in Vietnam and Cambodia that followed our departure makes the case for why we cant leave Iraq yet. His facts are right about the slaughter, but his lesson is suspect. Its not just that using a single aspect of the tortured Vietnam record to make a contemporary case is a shaky proposition. Its that were making the same mistake in Iraq that LBJ made in Vietnam - were doing for Iraqis what they wont do for themselves. Those damning findings were mitigated only by one conclusion that supported Bush. The report predicted that, if American forces stop policing the civil war in Baghdad to focus on training Iraqis and fighting Al Qaeda, the move "would erode security gains achieved thus far." last January, Bush said it was necessary to give the Iraqi government "breathing room" to forge political reconciliation and get its police and army in fighting shape. Eight months later, its not working, and it wont as long as were doing for Iraqis what they should be doing Tags: bush, iraq, vietnam zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. 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