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Iraq and Vietnam – last week President Bush argued that we should stay in Iraq to avoid what he called “the tragedy of Vietnam.” The president said “one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens, whose [...]
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Sometimes numbers can tell a story in ways nothing else can. TOM ENGELHARDT added up some key numbers at TomDispatch.com: Number of American troops stationed in Iraq: 162,000, an all-time high. Estimated monthly cost of the Iraq War: $10 billion/month. Number of [...]
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Can Democrats win in places they abandoned to the Republicans decades ago? BOB MOSER reports from “Bible-thumping, economically slumping” Wilkes County, North Carolina – and the news is good. Bob wrote the “Purple America” cover story in the new issue of The Nation, and [...]