http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hochiminh/ en-us Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:32:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian... FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts#comment Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859357/posts Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave knowing Ho Chi Minh used his immortal words from the Declaration of Independence of the United States — "All men are created equal; they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" — as the opening for the Vietnamese communist's Declaration of Independence. This is the same Vietnamese communist regime responsible for the murder of more than 1 million Vietnamese. Although Jefferson's immortal words may be in Vietnam's Declaration of Independence, there they are but hollow words. Vietnam tolerates no challenges... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859357/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:46:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749985/posts Former U.S. President Bill Clinton goes to pay tribute to late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Clinton came to Hanoi to sign an agreement with the Vietnamese government under which his Clinton Foundation will provide pediatric drugs to children living with HIV and AIDS. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749985/posts#comment Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:59:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724659/posts WASHINGTON - President Bush will visit Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, the city once known as Saigon that was the capital of U.S.-backed South Vietnam, during a trip to the communist nation next month, the White House said Monday. Bush will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' forum in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Nov. 18 and 19. He will also stop in Singapore and Indonesia during his trip, the White House said. Bush will meet with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and President Nguyen Minh Triet, an economic reformer who has pushed for his country's membership in the... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724659/posts#comment Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675026/posts REUTERS/Kham Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez stands in front of a statue of the late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi July 31, 2006. Reuters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675026/posts#comment Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586863/posts ACTOR and political activist Jane Fonda says coalition forces should leave Iraq and has labelled the conflict "disgusting" and "despicable". Fonda, once dubbed Hanoi Jane for her opposition to America's role in the Vietnam War, said too many lives were being lost after an invasion of Iraq that was based on lies. "I think it is a crime, a tragedy, disgusting and despicable," Fonda said in Sydney. "It is almost beyond comprehension how we could have been brought into this war based on lies and continue to lose so many lives, both American and Iraqi. "It makes my skin crawl... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586863/posts#comment Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:30:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567134/posts HILLARY CLINTON, NOVELTY ITEM Hillary Clinton wants to be all things to all people. In the last couple of weeks, she has stepped to the left of the president on health care, to the right of the president on Iran and into the realm of radicalism on race. Positioning herself for the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) is simultaneously broadening and narrowing her policy positions. Mostly, she just calls repeatedly for "new leadership." Hillary's policy positions are nothing new. She has nothing particularly interesting to say. In fact, Hillary's talking points are the same as 2004 Democratic presidential nominee... The Creators http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567134/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts#comment Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544135/posts Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has all the hallmarks of a clearcut favorite to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. She enjoys nearly universal name recognition, focuses on high-profile issues and, perhaps most importantly, has the ability to raise a lot of cash. But there is a massive amount of ground to cover before she can allow visions of settling back into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to dance in her head. First up is her Senate reelection campaign. In a development that could spice up the 2006 race, two antiwar candidates have announced they will challenge Clinton for the Democratic... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544135/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:24:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503208/posts Book Review of: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, By David Horowitz, Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2004. 296 pp. The nature of political doublespeak never changes and its agenda is always the same: Obliteration of historical memory in the service of power…. Only a restored memory can demolish totalitarian myths and make men free. (David Horowitz, in Big Lies, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2005) At first sight, a merger of the secular political left and the Islamist radical believers is an anomaly. But this book carefully dissects the secret of their partnership: their shared hatred of... FrontpageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503208/posts#comment Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:33:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/752273/posts <p>September 17, 2002 -- NEW Jersey voters already concerned about Sen. Robert Torricelli's low ethical threshold now learn that he's been a paid shill for a group the government identifies as a terrorist organization. Called on this by his Republican opponent, Douglas Forrester, in a debate Thursday, Torricelli said the group had been pulled from the State Department's global terror list and given a clean bill of health. Not true.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/752273/posts#comment Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446168/posts Reprinted from NewsMax.com Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:36 p.m. EDTHillary Clinton: I Tried to Join the Marines USA Today's report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's newfound appeal as a possible commander in chief omitted a key part of her resume that proves she's long been a hawk on military and defense issues: her attempt to join the Marines 30 years ago. Or at least that's what she claimed. Seated beside her husband, the former first lady recounted her military experience during a 1994 TV interview. "Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975," Mrs. Clinton recalled. "I decided... News mac http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446168/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:28:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419167/posts In December 1996, Robert Fisk of the London newspaper The Independent traveled to the mountains north of Khartoum where he met Osama bin Laden. The opening sentences of the article he wrote about the meeting went as follows: Osama Bin Laden sat in his gold fringed robe, guarded by loyal Arab mujahedin… . With his high cheekbones, narrow eyes and long brown robe, Mr Bin Laden looks every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend. Chadored children danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom. In a second article he wrote about the same meeting, Fisk upgraded bin Laden’s... The New Criterion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419167/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:36:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394634/posts Hillary Clinton makes Ohio stop Senator teams with Cleveland's Tubbs Jones on voting reform act that would make major changes By Martin Cizmar Beacon Journal staff writer WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS - Before the United States can encourage democracy in other nations, it needs to improve its own process, Sen. Hillary Clinton told an area audience Saturday. ``We cannot be exporting democracy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan when we don't have democracy at home,'' the New York Democrat said at an election reform forum at Warrensville Heights High School gymnasium in suburban Cleveland. Clinton joined U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland,... Beacon Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394634/posts#comment Sun, 1 May 2005 12:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388320/posts Let’s start with what just about everyone already knows — Hillary Clinton is running for the 2008 Democratic nomination and will be the odds-on favorite to win it. From this admittedly distant vantage point, there are only three serious alternatives on the Democratic side, none of which should present her with much difficulty. The first two, John Kerry and Al Gore, are unlikely because they are retreads. Not since the Democrats re-nominated Adlai Stevenson in 1956 has either of our major parties gone back to the same dry well the next time around, a consideration which works against Kerry. In... The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388320/posts#comment Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:47:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387841/posts Dear Everyone, We were able just today to get the itinerary for Jane Fonda's book signing tour. We are encouraging all Vietnam Veterans and their family, as well as all concerned Americans, to protest her signings. This is Operation Street Corner, now used for another traitor, Jane Fonda. Watch the Operation Street Corner website for pictures and information about our protests (http://operationstreetcorner.com/). There is nothing posted yet, as we are getting the word out first to our email listservers. Thank you so much for your time and help! I will be sending out additional information about Jane soon. See Hanoi... Swiftvets and POWs for Truth website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387841/posts#comment Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387358/posts KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police said they arrested a man for spitting on Academy Award winning actress Jana Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night.Fonda, 67, spoke at Unity Temple, in The Plaza shopping district, about her new book, "My Life So Far" and her new movie with Jennifer Lopez called "Monster-In-Law."At about 9 p.m., police said a man who had been waiting in line for about 90 minutes, passed a book to Fonda and then spit a large amount of tobacco juice into her face. Michael A. Smith Thy said the man then ran away and... News4JAX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387358/posts#comment Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382279/posts Sen. Hillary Clinton has been in politics long enough enough to know that polls can be misleading. So she told us yesterday that, despite a recent survey that indicated only 68% of men would be willing to vote for a female president, she thinks the time is right. "It depends on the woman," she said at the New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards luncheon yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria. Indeed, the New York legislator may very well be that woman on the 2008 Democratic ticket. Cristiane Amanpour agreed. "I feel Americans will be ready to empower a woman." And CBS'... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382279/posts#comment Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381619/posts HILLARY STOKES '08 FIRE WITH RED-HOT SPEECH By IAN BISHOP ----------------------------------------- HILLARY CLINTON Photo: Rick Dembow April 11, 2005 -- MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bowled over the Democratic faithful in the key 2008 presidential swing state of Minnesota with a fiery weekend stump speech that had fans hailing her as the "great hope" to take back the White House. "She speaks her mind and she's a leader," swooned Debra Manninen. "She's our great hope." Party faithful here devoured Clinton's brand-new, red-meat material in her first major political speech Saturday night since the November 2004 election, which aides said... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381619/posts#comment Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:28:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377280/posts 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda is rooting for Hillary Clinton to become president, Time magazine reports in this week's edition. "She 'hopes for a Hillary Clinton presidency,' but a decade of red-state living makes her doubt its likelihood," Time said, referring to Fonda's more recent Georgia roots. The radical actress used her political clout in last year's election to help John Kerry in his failed bid to win the White House - teaming up with "Vagina Monologues" playwright Eve Ensler to register women as part of their "Vaginas Vote" campaign. NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377280/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:31:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1369662/posts Will Hillary Clinton snare the Democratic presidential bid in 2008? Washington insider and Niles native Jack Strayer doesn't think so. Speaking at the annual dinner meeting Wednesday night of the Four Flags Area Chamber of Commerce, the federal lobbyist pointed out Americans seldom elect U.S. senators directly into the White House. What's more, he said, Clinton "has a ball and chain,'' in the form of former President Clinton, and a political bent that rubs many Democrats the wrong way. "Hillary Clinton is way too conservative for the current Democratic constituency,'' he said. A frequent guest on such programs as CNN's... South Bend Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1369662/posts#comment Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:19:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352083/posts Comment: Andrew Sullivan: New York warms to Hillary... next it could be America Something quite unusual is happening to Hillary Rodham Clinton. She’s becoming popular. In New York state, where she is the junior senator, her approval ratings are in the stratosphere. When she became senator, many sceptical New Yorkers — they’re not pushovers — were partly persuaded by the Republican campaign against her. The Sunday Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352083/posts#comment Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304913/posts Cuba Helps Vietnam Road Development Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khi opened Friday construction works at the 38-mile Ho Chi Minh-Trung Luong highway, in which Cuban experts have played a pivotal role. The road is part of a wider driveway that links different spots of the huge southern Can Tho, administrative center of the Mekong-river delta provinces. It is the first highway in Vietnam, with eight 3.75-yard lanes and two others devoted to emergencies, expected to be finished in 2007. This project is a property of MTA (My Thuan's Administration), while... Via NY Transfer News Collective http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304913/posts#comment Mon, 20 Dec 2004 05:13:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298512/posts The facade of the reservations office for United Airlines at Ho Chi Minh City. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A United Airlines jumbo jet took off from San Francisco at the start of the historic first US commercial flight to Vietnam since the fall of Saigon nearly 30 years ago. Flight UA869, a 347-seater Boeing 747-400 airliner, lifted off from San Francisco International Airport bound for Ho Chi Minh City, the southern Vietnamese hub formerly known as Saigon, via Hong Kong. The jet will on Friday become the first American commercial carrier to touch down in Vietnam since the end of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298512/posts#comment Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:21:54 GMT