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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:00 AM

Back to the future

Nixon in 1969. Bush in 2005.

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    Vietnam

    Of course our wingnut friends are convinced that anti-war liberals on the home front lost the war in Vietnam for us and they will surely assign blame similarly with Iraq.

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