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War funding passes but unease grows
July 28, 2010A record 102 Democrats, more than a third of the 255 Democrats in the House, voted against the bill, compared to 32 who opposed a similar bill last year.
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Afghanistan leaks paint grim picture
July 26, 2010In one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history, WikiLeaks has released 92,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war, and it's stirring a firestorm.
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Clinton issues vague pledge on Vietnam’s Agent Orange legacy
July 23, 2010Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lectured her Vietnamese hosts on human rights and issued vaguely worded pledges to help the developing country to tackle the horrific legacy of Agent Orange.
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After McChrystal, now what?
June 24, 2010President Obama made an important defense of democracy by firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his Afghanistan command post, but now what?
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Honoring buddies, not war, on Memorial Day
May 31, 2010Today, I will again lift a pint of ale in memory of my three friends and their comrades who died in Vietnam, without honoring the aggressive and unjust war.
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