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In Part II of this series, I referred to Jerry Lembcke’s book, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam, and his examination of the myth that anti-war protesters commonly spat on returning veterans. I quoted from an interview in which he touched on an important aspect of his book, the attempt to make sense of the myth in terms of blame-shifting, similar to that which took place in Germany after WWI, blame-shifting that would, eventually lead to the rise of the Third Reich. In
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As a former advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, I am compelled to offer the following observations on the recent attempt by President George W. Bush to appear less despotic than the reviled president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. In the midst of the sham election rigged to give Robert Mugabe the impression that he is still the most popular leader of his teeming masses, George W. Bush outdid himself in a realm where he deserves a special distinction for excellence:  hypocrisy. As the most unpopular
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