Isn't That *Special*! Obama DOD Revising Vietnam History. [View all]

[Smarmie Doofus]

You'd think that the post-b-boomers would at least wait til the rest of us are actually... ya' know ....*dead* before they started to do the VN revisionism thing.

On a related note... the political alignment really hasn't changed at all since 1968 . GOP cold war demagogues still aligned w. RW DEMs like LBJ and Scoop Jackson. Pushing the same, profoundly flawed world view with the ... look around you, folks... the same catastrophic war-without -end results.

Anyways................................... from today's NYT:

>>>WASHINGTON — It has been nearly half a century since a young antiwar protester named Tom Hayden traveled to Hanoi to investigate President Lyndon B. Johnson’s claims that the United States was not bombing civilians in Vietnam. Mr. Hayden saw destroyed villages and came away, he says, “pretty wounded by the pattern of deception.”

Now the Pentagon — run by a Vietnam veteran, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel — is planning a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War. The effort, which is expected to cost taxpayers nearly $15 million by the end of this fiscal year, is intended to honor veterans and, its website says, “provide the American public with historically accurate materials” suitable for use in schools.

But the extensive website, which has been up for months, largely describes a war of valor and honor that would be unrecognizable to
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/pentagons-web-timeline-brings-back-vietnam-and-protesters-.html