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• I did a great job!

  Published: April 20, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Karl, Little People, Iraq Vietnam, I Did A Great Job, Nailed It

  Hey people, I did one of those "town hall" meetings the other day. I took some questions from the audience... don't worry folks though, 'cause Karl told me that the only people they let in there were loyal republicans. No terrorists democrats a... Read and post comments Send to a friend

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• Lemon Glass

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Noodle, Vietnam

  I am rare steak pho and fisherman pho.

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• Cambodia to Vietnam

  Published: July 29, 2007, 6:35 am

  Tags: Vietnam, Cambodia, Travel

  of photos. cambodia to vietnam. the shot of me frantically and obsessively trying to upload video to the web on an old PC in the internet cafe cracks me up. look at my face! i look crazed! it's true, i must upload or else! now we're in thailand. i'm liking it so far! bangkok is huge, it reminds me of

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• The slow traveller

  Published: August 4, 2007, 8:32 pm

  Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Green Travel, Cycling Holidays, Vietnam

  Continuing his low-carbon trip around the world, Ed Gillespie enjoys the freedom of a bicycle in Hanoi but independent travel elsewhere in Vietnam is a struggle.

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• Twenty-one Years Later Kerry Answers His Own Question

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:51 pm

  Tags: Political Commentary, 23rd, 1971, Mistake, Vietnam, Behalf, April, Question, Veterans

  speaking on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War asked this question; “We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Operation: Vietnam Ships for the Nintendo DS

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Nintendo, Gamer Life, Games, Game Companies, Coyote Developements Ltd, Majesco Entertainment, Maps, Nintendo, Nintendo Ds, Operation Vietnam, Stylus, Touch Screen, Viet Cong

  it has shipped Operation: Vietnam for the Nintendo DS. Developed by Coyote Console, Operation: Vietnam takes place in the jungles of Vietnam where the player’s transport is shot down deep inside Viet Cong territory. Surrounded by the enemy, players must rally their squad and lead them back to safety. Along the way, players must fend

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• Here's what David Milch is doing next

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: David Milch, Davidmilch, Deadwood, Hbo, John From Cincinnati, New York City Police, Nypd Blue, Nypdblue, Vietnam

  a cop show, centering on a Vietnam veteran who returns to the United States and joins the New York City police force in the 1970s. This is actually a show that Milch and HBO have been working on even before Deadwood or John From Cincinnati, but now they have the time to work on it. No word yet on whether this cop will levitate or not, but

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• Blissed out on the South China Sea

  Published: August 18, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Vietnam, Asia

  From luxury beachside retreats with spas and personal butlers to high-class hill stations, Lynn Barber finds Vietnam's reinvention as an upscale tourist destination nothing short of a miracle.

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• Bush: Ending Vietnam war was a mistake

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Bush, Vietnam, Iraq

  Certifiably insane. That's the Republican model for winning in Iraq - Vietnam. You see, if we just stayed longer in Vietnam, fought longer in Vietnam, lost more American lives in Vietnam, everything would have ended okay.

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• Hey Hey W, How Many Kids Today Were Killed By You Dept.: Bush: Iraq Pretty Much Like Vietnam

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:51 am

  Tags: Bullshit, George W Bush, Hey Hey W How Many Kids Today Were Killed By You Dept, History, Iraq, Speeches, Vietnam, War

  One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of Americas withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like “boat people,” “re-education camps,” and “killing fields.” If we don’t win in Iraq now we’ll have to deal with Oliver

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• And It Will Become Necessary to Destroy the Country in Order to Save It

  Published: August 22, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: In Other News, George W Bush, History, Iraq, Politics, Vietnam, War

  Sorry, this has no New York connection and is outside our usual bailiwick and all that, but, still: How did this man get elected twice? Bush to Invoke Vietnam in Arguing Against Iraq Pullout [CNN] Related: Bush's Iraq-Vietnam Parallel [The Lede/NYT]

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• The Cambodia Myth

  Published: August 22, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: Wingnut Butchery Of History, Vietnam, Iraq War

  years of American and South Vietnamese bombardment of eastern Cambodia, and without the illegal invasion of the country in 1970, the preconditions for the ascent of the Khmer Rouge would not have existed. More importantly, as the Khmer became embroiled in a xenophobic campaign against ethnic Vietnamese and sought -- improbably -- to regain

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• More Revisionist History

  Published: August 22, 2007, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Iraq, George W Bush, Vietnam

  powerful lessons from the Vietnam war. Among those lessons were the fact that U.S. must be "slow to engage troops." "We can never again ask the military to fight a political war," Bush said, adding that "the cause must be just": A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam: When America uses force in the world, the

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• Bush "was against Vietnam before he was for it"

  Published: August 22, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Vietnam, Iraq, George Bush

  as we've noted, he invoked Vietnam. But, as the Senate Democrats rightly point out, Bush was against that comparison before he was for it:In 2004, Bush Opposed Comparison Between Iraq and Vietnam:QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are

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• Reenactors

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Vietnam, Iraq, Duhbya

  points to Vietnam now as an argument not to leave Iraq. If only we had stayed the course in Southeast Asia, maybe we could still be there, too. And damn that Gen. Lee, "we" could've won the Civil War, too, if he hadn't caved at Appomattox.Duhbya is playing to the neoconfederates; they're his only remaining base. Given their passion for

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