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“Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President”

Salon: Jessica Kowal: ‘As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.’  [→ READ ]

As the Bush denials grow more insistent, some of the brightest and most critical thinkers of the Vietnam generation — journalists, historians, soldiers and policy analysts — are seeing stark similarities between the two wars. They defined the popular understanding of the Vietnam era with their works of journalism, memoir and history, and in a series of interviews with Salon they expressed amazement that the United States seems to be blundering its way into another misadventure that soaks up our financial, political and human resources.