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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Although Holbrooke has a past as soldier in Vietnam,
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Holbrooke was never a soldier, sailor, airman or marine. |
Re-checked, and confirmed. I stand corrected.
He was member of Johnson's staff and was involved in creating the so-called Pentagon-Papers that proved that there were preparations for the war (Vietnam) long time in advance, and that the information of the public intentionally was misleading and manipulating. "Staff" and "Pentagon" left a wrong echo in my mind.
Note the difference in critcal tone in the German
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke
and English wikipedia-entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke.