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More media attacks on vets *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Jan 19 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military, Vietnam

The media supported the troops when they felt they could attack the War. Now that the Surge is working, with dramatic downturns in overall violence (setting the stage for political stability), making attacks on the War somehow doesn’t work anymore, so the media has found a tried and true target: the troops themselves. [...]

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Killing a canard quickly *UPDATE*

Bookworm on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Military

After the Vietnam War, one of the favorite liberal tropes was that the vets came back as deranged, dysfunctional, often savage subhuman creatures. I never understood that. I was the daughter of a veteran who had served in two wars, one of which was WWII, where he saw hand to hand combat at [...]

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