<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>The historical account (first link) that I was confronted with by the News-Gazette at breakfast this morning is, of course, hogwash. It was the South Vietnamese peasants--not the North Vietnames regime--that were determined to overthrow the leaders that we had chosen for them.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-kissinger-vietnam,0,4484531.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-kissinger-vietnam,0,4484531.story</A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/activist-berates-white-house-kissinger/">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/activist-berates-white-house-kissinger/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"In introducing Kissinger, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — who opposed the war as a college student and has written that she held contradictory feelings about expressing her opposition — spoke in broad terms about how the conflict influenced her generation's view of the world.<BR><BR>"Like everyone in those days, I had friends who enlisted — male friends who enlisted — were drafted, resisted, or became conscientious objectors; many long, painful, anguished conversations," she said. "And yet, the lessons of that era continue to inform the decisions we make.""<BR></DIV></div><br>
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