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March 8, 1965 -- The first Stockholm Conference on Vietnam is held in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference is the creation of Romesh Chandra, chairman of the KGB-funded World Peace Council. Former Soviet bloc spy chief Ion Mihai Pacepa will later describe it as "a permanent international organization to aid or to conduct operations to help Americans dodge the draft or defect, to demoralize its army with anti-American propaganda, to conduct protests, demonstrations, and boycotts, and to sanction anyone connected with the war." The operation is staffed by undercover intelligence officers and funded to the tune of about $15 million per...

Apparently concerned about influencing the U.S. presidential campaign, Vietnamese communist officials ordered a war museum in Ho Chi Minh City to remove a photograph of John Kerry from a display that was highlighted in "Unfit for Command," the best-seller challenging the senator's version of his military service and his antiwar activities. "Unfit for Command" described the photo as "part of an exhibit honoring heroes who had helped the Vietnamese communists win the war against the United States." An angered American veteran of the Vietnam War who learned of the photograph through the book, traveled last week to the former Saigon...

Missing from the Democrat National Convention was the big political scandal of 2004: Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who was caught red-handed in a serious national security crime. Kerry, Clinton and Berger all lack one thing: Character. They can’t be trusted with America’s national security. Before Berger got caught, he was Kerry’s chief national security adviser. The moment Berger was found stealing classified documents down his pants and his socks to sneak them out of the National Archives, Kerry dumped him. (Kerry has yet to distance himself from the pathological liar Michael Moore, the filmmaker who wants the...