In These Times

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• • 28 Jul 08
  • 6:15 am

  More Scars, Tears and Chains. I'll read your book, but I'm not looking forward to it. War crimes were also committed in Cambodia during the illegal war. I've heard that more than 500,000 villagers were killed during the illegal bombing that took place. There was an article in my local paper written by a former pilot. He said that there should have been more bombing in order to free those people from the Khmer Rouge. Actually, it was the bombing that drove villagers (for safety) to join the Khmer Rouge, which was quite small at the time of the bombing. Cambodians …

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• • 24 Jul 08
  • 9:06 pm

  Speculators belong in jail. People die and wars have started as a result of speculators. The timing of the start of the Korean War may have come about as a result of soy bean speculating by Chiang Kai Shek, Syngman Rhee and their friends in the U.S. Almost 60 years later and this "stuff" still goes on. This "stuff" makes me #@$%#@ sick.

  Posted to Let Them Eat Free Markets

• • 29 Apr 08
  • 5:22 am

  After 30+ years in the marines, General Smedley Butler (two medals of honor) was so much more critical of the U.S. government's foreign policy than Sergeant (??)Wright. I'm late for work. If you don't know who General Butler is, simply "google" his name. PS I don't know what flag that is, but I'm from the U.S. and a veteran.

  Posted to Bill Moyers Interviews Rev. Jeremiah Wright

• • 29 Apr 08
  • 5:42 pm

  Natalie, If you go to the Obama website you can watch/listen to today's press conference and read some of the comments. ...better late than never? I'd appreciate it if someone would tell me how to get rid of the flag. U.S. U.S.

  Posted to Bill Moyers Interviews Rev. Jeremiah Wright

• • 30 Apr 08
  • 4:59 am

  Kansas, I'm right here in the U.S., but thanks for the response. I'll just have to switch from Bud to Beck beer when I write my comments. Gotta hand it to the Germans they do brew better beer. Hoping I'm wrong, but corporate America will not allow Senator Obama to become president.

  Posted to Bill Moyers Interviews Rev. Jeremiah Wright