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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 11:40 PM
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Vietnam Vet interrupts PM's speech
"That's life," Vietnam's prime minister said after security officers hustled a balding, shouting protester believed to be a Vietnam veteran away from the head table at a gala dinner celebrating friendship between Vietnam and its one-time enemy, the US.
The incident, which lasted only a few seconds, was testimony of how bitterly divisive that war remains. It followed -- and stood in stark contrast to -- an introduction Tuesday night of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai by another Vietnam veteran, Senator John McCain, who spent almost six years as prisoner of war in Vietnam.

McCain had said: "Thirty years after the war's end, I believe we should look to the future and its potential and not to the past and its pain."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/23/2003260407

The "balding" was a key investigative fact for this story. The Media Whores notice this but they don't notice the difference between a bomb going off inside a vehicle compared to a bomb going off strapped onto a person. Well done Whore!
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