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---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:26:57 -0600
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>Ian Murray wrote:
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>> That's why his email address was on the end of his
>> essay........................
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>> j.freedland at guardian.co.uk
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>> Calm down, collect your thoughts and communicate with him..........
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>I probably will later. But decade after decade of the same lies
>endlessly repeated about the anti-war movement of the '60s wears one
>down. It seems that even large numbers of leftists today take their
>image of the anti-war struggle of the '60s from Time, Spiro Agnew & Bob
>Greene. This popular image of the '60s is _exactly_ the same sort of
>bullshit that I understand is already being spread about Rachel Corrie.
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>If U.S. troops massacre a whole village in Vietnam, that is an
>aberration.
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>If one anti-war protester makes a fool of him/herself someplace, that is
>_The Movement_.
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>And note that Freedlund did imply that "the movement" (not just a few
>strays) so treated returning veterans. It is incidentally quite probable
>that the whole thing is an urban legend -- that it didn't happen even
>one single time.
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>Carrol
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>> Ian
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>P.S. I do understand that in some American Legion posts returning Vets
>were mocked as "losers."
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