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    Just a Reminder...

    The more things change the more they stay the same.

    Gates says we have to stop the Taliban in Afghanistan or they will be a problem elsewhere.

    Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon say we have to stop the Communists in Vietnam or they will be a problem elsewhere.

    Same thing just different bogeyman

    Please remember this is the real reason we are in Afghanistan.

    And here is an [...]



    War is Hell and McNamara Belongs There

    as Joe Galloway points out.  Even though not even of draft age, I still vividly remember having a very bad opinion of McNamara.  He was the Rumsfeld of the Vietnam War and detested even more than Rumsfeld it seemed, perhaps because there was much more anti-war fervor in those times.  McNamara, unlike “Dumbsfeld”, did a much better job of convincing the silent majority that the [...]



    Chomsky - Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

    Here is approximately 60 minutes of Noam Chomsky who just turned 80 years old speaking last month at Riverside Church in Harlem to approximately 2000 people.

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    Representatives Who Deserve Your Vote

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    Below are the Democrats who stood against Obama’s expanding war the day their votes mattered (See where your Representative stood here):

    Tammy Baldwin, Michael Capuano, John Conyers, Lloyd Doggett, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Alan Grayson, Raul Grijalva, Michael Honda, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Eric Massa, Jim McGovern, Michael Michaud, Donald Payne, Chellie Pingree, Jared Polis, [...]



    Vietnam Videos and Photos Helped Stop the War

    So much for learning from our mistakes. President Obama is attempting to block the release of hundreds of photos showing US personnel abusing detainees.

    Pass of Salang – Afghanistan

    President Barack Obama is seeking to block the immediate release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. An Obama administration official said Wednesday that the president told his [...]



    i guess i should stop complaining about my pay cut now

    At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job:

    Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II.

    The increase could put Oregon on a pace to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation when those figures are released on Friday, state labor economist Art Ayre [...]



    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]



    heartbreaking

    As the mother of an only child, a son, this was a heart-wrenching piece to read.

    But every American needs to, because more than 4,000 sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, lovers, brothers and sisters have come home dead from these wars. For what? What have we accomplished?

    How cruel is life when your comfort lies in hugging your loved one’s casket?

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