‘Vietnam War architect’ McNamara dies
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Robert McNamara, “the architect of the Vietnam War,” died today at the age of 93.
In his declining years he, “publicly disavowing his decisions as ‘wrong, terribly wrong’,” says the Los Angeles Times.
“In 1946, he joined the Ford Motor Company, one of a number of ‘whiz kids’ hired to help restructure it and stem its losses.” says Times Online, adding:
“He was so successful that in November 1960, at the age of 44, he was named president of the entire company, the first man in that post who was not a member of the Ford family. But within weeks of securing one of the most powerful jobs in American industry, McNamara was offered a Cabinet-level post in the incoming Kennedy administration. He turned down the post of Treasurer but agreed to become Secretary of Defence and used the same skills deployed at Ford to reshape the US military machine to respond to the threat of the Cold War.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Los Angeles Time – Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, architect of Vietnam War, dies at 93, July 6, 2009
Times Online – Robert McNamara, architect of Vietnam War, dies aged 93, July 6, 2009
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July 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Although the Vietnam-era Canadian government was sympathetic to the US military deserters/resisters, the same has not been true regarding the Iraq war. Now it seems the Harper government is trying to rewrite history.
“OTTAWA – The Harper government is denying claims that it stripped a section on Vietnam from a federal website to boost its case for deporting Iraq war resisters.
Text on how both draft dodgers and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the Citizenship and Immigration site earlier this year.”
http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/256552–federal-website-changes-undermine-iraq-resisters-critics