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    <body><![CDATA[History is not static. Well, the events have happened and that can't change but what we can or have learned from it are as fluid as anyone can relate to them. Viet Nam was a failure, or Viet Nam was a necessary war, I've heard both analysis defended equally strongly. That is just an easy one to use, imagine something as loaded with events as the 20's and 30's. When I was a child the party line was that the depression was caused by the bad 20's and we were merely paying the price from our bad (my exaggeration) economy of the 20's. FDR was a hero, he did many things that were over the top but he was painted as a hero, a messiah more or less. This analysis says basically the world and the USA in particular wanted socialism. All through the 20's both parties tried to pass the programs which FDR's people did in the 30's. We've been paying the price for them ever since, noticed how many $$$'s you pay in Social Security? Also history should not be written as long as the people invovled are still living.  ]]></body>
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