Vietnam lessons lost in Iraq war (Chicago Sun-Times)

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We shouldn't once again wait too long to admit our mistake and leave

September 23, 2007
BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist

In the scheme of small protests, I suppose what I did the other day qualifies. I was in one of those little catchall stores, the kind that sells candles and clothes and cheap jewelry. It was a necklace that caught my eye. A tiny peace symbol suspended from a plain pewter chain ...

Now, as then, the protest is still not loud enough, our collective will still not strong enough to stop what just about everyone believes is an ill-conceived, poorly planned disaster of an Iraq war ...

... former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan .. wrote in his new memoir, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." It would have been nice if he'd said that a little earlier ...

Since we don't have a Congress that can find its voice, or an electorate that can overcome its passivity on everything from lost civil liberties to the lies told to justify the Iraq invasion, or more elder statesman like Gates and Greenspan finally leveling with us, what's left? ...

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