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"United for Peace" March in Washington DC

Current TV appears to be one of the few news channels briefly reporting this morning about the "United for Peace" march in Washington, D.C.

Moreover, a few print media sites are covering this important story (see the "Google News" link within the headline for this blog post). Has America really learned from past policy mistakes, like the Vietnam war fiasco?

The analogy between the unwelcome Iraq occupation denial and the past Vietnam scenario continues to grow, so let's hope that we don't see a repeat performance of the Ohio National Guard slaughter of pro-peace young Americans that occurred at the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970.

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