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Thomas Sowell is exactly right, again!
1 posted on 01/08/2008 6:43:46 PM PST by jazusamo
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2 posted on 01/08/2008 6:45:30 PM PST by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: jazusamo

Thomas Sowell hits a Grand Slam!


3 posted on 01/08/2008 6:48:33 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: jazusamo; LibreOuMort
In reality, the assassin of Robert Kennedy was not an American, but an Iranian.

Maybe.. Sirhan Sirhan doesn't look to my eyes as an Iranian name but whatever... To name him as an Iranian is to go against everything the country's government (the Shah et al) and the people (I rely on multiple accounts) stood for at the time.

4 posted on 01/08/2008 6:50:00 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: jazusamo

The sixties turned me into a conservative.


7 posted on 01/08/2008 6:57:00 PM PST by Mears
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To: jazusamo
I ran across this today to refresh myself of the events of '68 . I was only 12, but just reading it brought back some vivid memories. Not so much the convention, but the 'times'

Brief History Of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention

9 posted on 01/08/2008 6:59:55 PM PST by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: All; jazusamo; reformjoy

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NEVER FORGET

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WALTER CRONKITE’s 1968 TV declaration that we had lost the Vietnam War,

...while college students HILLARY RODHAM & WILLIAM CLINTON were busy supporting a Communist terrorist victory over a then Free South Vietnam,

horridly brought down upon a once Free South Vietnamese people ..a:

..”JOURNEY from the FALL”..

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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Now that our own Freedom is directly at stake here at home in a new time of war in a new century...

...what horrid fate awaits us, the still Free, when the Anti-Freedom RODHAM-CLINTON Team re-enter our precious Oval Office one last time..?

(A WALTER CRONKITE who is backing that same RODHAM-CLINTON Team’s Oval Office re-entry,

...went to a year 2000 London World Conference to declare that it was time for America’s 11 Southern States to secede from the Union ...as covered by AP at the time.)

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Signed:..A witness to the times & Veteran of the 1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-66

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

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NEVER FORGET


20 posted on 01/08/2008 7:40:35 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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Thomas Sowell, American Treasure!
21 posted on 01/08/2008 7:40:46 PM PST by marktwain
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More than 50,000 Americans gave their lives to win victories on the battlefields of Vietnam that were thrown away back in the United States by the media, by politicians and by rioters in the streets and on campuses.

Never forget. When it was fashionable a couple of years ago to compare Iraq to Vietnam (as if Vietnam metaphors were anything new) I used to point out to my liberal friends that not only was Iraq not Vietnam, Vietnam wasn't Vietnam- meaning, that what we had been told about the Vietnam war for now 40 years, simply wasn't the truth.

24 posted on 01/08/2008 7:46:17 PM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("I have so many opportunities for this country." Senator Hillary Clinton, D-NY)
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Of course, Sowell has hit the nail on the head again.

For anyone who wants a greater understanding of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive I highly recommend Richard Nixon's book No More Vietnams

26 posted on 01/08/2008 7:50:43 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!


29 posted on 01/08/2008 7:56:58 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Dippie hippies grew up, ran for office and destroyed America.

I hate the sixties. Can’t even stand the music anymore.


32 posted on 01/08/2008 8:02:23 PM PST by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: jazusamo
The American media, led by Walter Cronkite, pictured the Tet offensive as a defeat for the United States and a sign that the Vietnam war was unwinnable.

We will never win another war until we commit to controlling the press where the war is concerned. If we kill every terrorist in Iraq and Afghanistan, the liberal media will simply repeat, "We lost" until it is ingrained in the national consciousness. Their self-righteousness and intellectual corruption always leads them to be propagandists for whoever we are fighting.

34 posted on 01/08/2008 8:10:34 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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I was in college in 1968. It seemed each turn of the page of the calendar brought some momentous and awful event. The horrors of the year were sufficient that I saved the year-end magazines, lest we forget. I have two college graduate children. Needless to say they were taught in college something quite different from what was memorialized in the magazines. They are both Republicans, with GOP mates.


39 posted on 01/08/2008 8:50:05 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: jazusamo

Really nice.


43 posted on 01/08/2008 9:39:28 PM PST by wardaddy (This is depressing....ok....Obama and Colin Powell are both really wonderful...happy now?)
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Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968

William Anders:

"For all the people on Earth the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you".

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Jim Lovell:

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Frank Borman:

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."

Borman then added, "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth."


44 posted on 01/08/2008 10:00:07 PM PST by Starrgaizr
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The riots in Detroit were in ‘67, not ‘68.


46 posted on 01/08/2008 10:07:53 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: jazusamo
More than 50,000 Americans gave their lives to win victories on the battlefields of Vietnam that were thrown away back in the United States by the media, by politicians and by rioters in the streets and on campuses.

That is one part of history that makes me despise liberals.

54 posted on 01/09/2008 7:00:51 AM PST by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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Politically, however, the Tet offensive was an enormous victory for the Communists -- not in Vietnam, but in the United States.

Yes, the communist is the United States.

56 posted on 01/09/2008 7:48:42 AM PST by oldbrowser
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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (b. East Jerusalem 1944) was definitly a Palestinian, emigrated here with his parents at age twelve, and most definitely a product of the standard hate-crazed indoctrination of all post ‘48 palis. Both his parents were fanatic jew-haters who did their best to steep him in same. Though he would later claim not to know what he was doing, his letters and diaries were full of that fanaticism which he directed towards RFK who he saw as soft on Israel. He really went off the rails after the Six-day war, but in view of the stuff I have read, he only played at insanity when he thought it might help his case.

Sirhan’s political motivation and even his ethnicity (just like Lee Harvey Oswald’s communism) have been efficiently suppressed by the liberal MSM over the years. In both instances, they want us to think it was somehow the fault of “our” violent society that these things happened (re: Emilio Estevez’ recent movie “Bobby”)


61 posted on 01/09/2008 10:00:24 AM PST by sinanju
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To: jazusamo

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (b. East Jerusalem 1944) was definitly a Palestinian, emigrated here with his parents at age twelve, and most definitely a product of the standard hate-crazed indoctrination of all post ‘48 palis. Both his parents were fanatic jew-haters who did their best to steep him in same. Though he would later claim not to know what he was doing, his letters and diaries were full of that fanaticism which he directed towards RFK who he saw as soft on Israel. He really went off the rails after the Six-day war, but in view of the stuff I have read, he only played at insanity when he thought it might help his case.

Sirhan’s political motivation and even his ethnicity (just like Lee Harvey Oswald’s communism) have been efficiently suppressed by the liberal MSM over the years. In both instances, they want us to think it was somehow the fault of “our” violent society that these things happened (re: Emilio Estevez’ recent movie “Bobby”)


62 posted on 01/09/2008 10:00:27 AM PST by sinanju
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