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  • It happened today...on November 30 (67th Anniversary of "Winter War" in Finland)

    11/30/2006 6:26:49 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 11 replies · 542+ views
    AvioNews ^ | 11/20/06
    ... /snip Report: 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the "Mannerheim Line", starting the war. /snip ....
  • 1980: John Kerry says he supports the draft; Cautions President on escalation of rhetoric vs Russia

    06/13/2004 4:00:04 PM PDT · by nwrep · 10 replies · 2,629+ views
    The Boston Globe Archives | June 13, 2004 | Richard H. Stewart Globe Staff
    NOTE: President Carter used his 1980 SOTU speech to address the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the American hostages taken by Iran. He called for increasing military spending, reducing restrictions on the CIA, and revival of the selective services registration. Many on the left, like Noam Chomsky, attacked him for his response to the crisis, others, like Sen. McGovern supported him, while John Kerry offered qualified support and equivocation. ************************************************************************************************** January 25, 1980 by Richard H. Stewart Globe Staff Antiwar activists from the Vietnam era are not as united about President Jimmy Carter's tough-sounding [State of the Union] speech on...
  • Hillary Praises Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    12/16/2003 10:11:09 AM PST · by WinOne4TheGipper · 66 replies · 1,847+ views
    News Max ^ | 12/16/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax Staff
    U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, praising the former Soviet Union yesterday for its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, said that the attack helped bring women's rights to the fundamentalist Muslim country. "The Soviets tried to provide more opportunities for women," Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, in a speech billed by her office as "her first major foreign policy address as a U.S. senator." In quotes picked up by the New York Sun, Mrs. Clinton noted that Afghanistan was "the place where September 11 was conceived and implemented." She then criticized the Bush administration for not focusing more...