Parallel US Wars: Vietnam & Iraq

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I was pleased to travel in a Viet Nam not under military attack by a foreign power.

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The news was devastating. Two weeks after a successful speaking tour of the US in June 2007, two of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims on the delegation were dead.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong and Mr. Nguyen Van Quy, suffering respectively from terminal breast and stomach cancer, had come to share their stories with the people of the US.

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I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

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Impeachment is a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government.

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On the third Friday of every month, protests across the USA.

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Congress does not have to pass legislation to bring an end to the war in Iraq -- it simply has to block passage of any bill that would continue to fund the war.

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They will some day curse us for our pitiful willingness to let the Executive carry the burden that the Constitution places on us.

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"I'm often asked whether there aren't big differences between the Iraq War and Vietnam. And I'm always quick to say, of course, there are differences. In Iraq, it's a dry heat. And the language that none of our troops or diplomats speak is Arabic rather than Vietnamese." -Daniel Ellsberg

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Government policymakers care about military "credibility,"not the people of Southeast Asia -- or Iraq.