I didn't get to cover a lot of news today on the site, so here is a news-focused round up.
Unrest continues in Iran and Honduras, with an escalation in violence this weekend in Honduras when the ousted President tried to return to the country.
Marjane Satrapi, the well-known Iran cartoonist and author of the Persepolis series, published this Op-Ed in the NY Times about the situation in Iran.
Still no juicy gossip behind why Governor Palin is resigning her post, but Mother Jones reports about her last act--parental consent for abortion.
Uganda moves to outlaw female genital mutilation.
Former DC Mayor Marion Barry adds another accusation to his already long list: stalking.
The former Defense Secretary who led the US into the Vietnam war (among other things), Robert S. McNamara, dies at 93.
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Watch out, Palin is going to sue the internets if you talk about her!
Sad that McNamara died. Even sadder that he lived.
The former Defense Secretary who led the US into the Vietnam war (among other things), Robert S. McNamara, dies at 93.
Like I said about Reagan, "The good die young."
The Whiz Kid was 93. The average dead American soldier in Vietnam was 23.
It was JFK that got us in there, his little brother Bobby who kept us there, and his paranoid schizophrenic successor who screwed the pooch and refused to listen to anyone other than those little voices in his head.
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actually, Eisenhower was really the one who started our involvement in Vietnam, and many of the problems there were really the result of French colonialism, and if France hadn't insisted on getting it's colony back after WWII, it could have turned out a whole lot differently.
These are true, but do not conflict with the statements made or mitigate McNamara, JFK, Johnson, or for that matter Nixon's guilt.
Hey, you might want to check out this interactive timeline of the Iranian Election--there's a ton of pictures and links to news articles that might have slipped through the cracks.