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from The Seattle Times.
Sunday, May 08, 2005, 12:00 A.M. Pacific
Maverick David Hackworth, 74, dies
By Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times
Retired Army Col. David Hackworth, 74, the highly decorated infantry officer who denounced U.S. policy in Vietnam during the war and later became an outspoken journalist who offered trenchant analyses of the military, has died.Col. Hackworth, who lived in Greenwich, Conn., died Wednesday in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was undergoing treatment for bladder cancer. Eilhys England, his wife of eight years, was at his side.
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He returned to the United States more than a decade ago and assumed a new role as a journalist: He became a contributing editor at Newsweek, a syndicated columnist and a fixture on television talk shows. A persistent thorn in the side of the Pentagon, Col. Hackworth in 2002 called Afghanistan a Vietnam-like disaster in the making, and last year he told Salon.com that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "misunderstood the whole war" in Iraq and predicted that American troops could be stuck there for "at least" another 30 years.
"Most combat vets pick their fights carefully. They look at their scars, remember the madness and are always mindful of the fallout," Col. Hackworth, who still carried a bullet in his leg from Vietnam, wrote in February. "That's not the case in Washington, where the White House and the Pentagon are run by civilians who have never sweated it out on a battlefield."
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