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To: cosmicforce who wrote (126641)	12/8/2009 1:13:52 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 543606

You are right. Thanks. Ellsberg, symbolically, represents all that could and did go wrong with a war plan. Furthermore, he knew from his firsthand experience in the Mekong Delta as a 1Lt in the marines what and how severe a challenge we would encounter there. He learned it all at the knee of one of the finest anti- guerrella combat minds we ever produced--John Paul Vann. For a hellluva a read on a decade of Vann's, a very complex man, and our increasingly complex commitment to VN see the book "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam" by UPI and NY Times Reporter Neil Sheehan.