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Brig. Gen. Viet Luong of the 1st Cavalry Division came to the United States in the 1970s after his family fled Vietnam in the waning days of the war there. He’s now leading the effort to train Afghan soldiers to fight the Taliban
(http://www.wbur.org/npr/403082804/the-frightened-vietnamese-kid-who-became-a-u-s-army-general)
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Big day today
“Twenty-three detainees are currently being force-fed. At least twice a day, guards in riot gear tie each detainee to a chair or bed, and medical personnel force a tube up his nose and down his throat, and pump a can of Ensure or other dietary supplement into his stomach. There are so many detainees being force-fed that Guantanamo’s medical personnel are working around the clock to keep up with the demand, and approximately 40 additional medical personnel just arrived in Guantanamo to help deal with the growing crisis.”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/photos-hunger-strike-guantanamo-force-feeding/)
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The True Cost of the War in Iraq
“Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/charts-cost-iraq-war/)
“This will mean that where prosecution is possible in both the UK and in another state, the British courts will be able to bar prosecution overseas if they believe it is in the interests of justice to do so.”
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