It's funny you know. One of the first things we are told in history class is, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."Well guess what? For Vietnam Vet Anthony Zinni, Another War on Shaky Territory

"Obviously there are differences" between Vietnam and Iraq, he says. "Every situation is unique." But in his bones, he feels the same chill. "It feels the same. I hear the same things -- about [administration charges about] not telling the good news, about cooking up a rationale for getting into the war." He sees both conflicts as beginning with deception by the U.S. government, drawing a parallel between how the Johnson administration handled the beginning of the Vietnam War and how the Bush administration touted the threat presented by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "I think the American people were conned into this," he says. Referring to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which the Johnson administration claimed that U.S. Navy ships had been subjected to an unprovoked attack by North Vietnam, he says, "The Gulf of Tonkin and the case for WMD and terrorism is synonymous in my mind."

I call it giving him enough rope to hang himself with. But they call it the 'Bleeding Strategy' Comes Home.

Families sue U.S., reject 9/11 `bribe'. Here is what one said:

She is also resentful that the government is determining the worth of loved ones.

"This is about mass murder," she said. "I want to know who was responsible.

"No one has been fired. No one has been demoted. The same people who are guarding us today on an elevated security alert are the same people who were working that day."

It's covered a little different in the US media, of course, 95% of 9/11 families file with victim fund.

This looks interesting, This Republican Has Some Doubts.

One more thing, Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way?


- posted by Mom/Dad @ 12:08 PM