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President Barack Obama has just returned from his first trip as commander in chief to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led invasion and occupation of that country are now in their ninth year, amid increasing comparisons to Vietnam.
Daniel Ellsberg, whom Henry Kissinger once called the most dangerous man in America, leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ellsberg, who was a top Pentagon analyst, photocopied this secret, 7,000-page history of the U.S. role in Vietnam and released it to the press, helping to end the Vietnam War.
http://cdn4.libsyn.com/democracynow...25&nva=20100430162725&t=0a58cbc146d670604368a
Daniel Ellsberg, whom Henry Kissinger once called the most dangerous man in America, leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ellsberg, who was a top Pentagon analyst, photocopied this secret, 7,000-page history of the U.S. role in Vietnam and released it to the press, helping to end the Vietnam War.
http://cdn4.libsyn.com/democracynow...25&nva=20100430162725&t=0a58cbc146d670604368a
