And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, and yes, it is a great day, despite the fact that this great nation continues to feel bitterly, painfully divided over debates about the war.

Is it a moral war or a brutal, horrible, unjustified war?

Does the war involve too many American troops and too much force, or not enough

American troops and not enough force? Is the war part of the desire for American imperialism,

or is it an absolutely essential struggle to try to protect the cause of freedom? I'm talking

now, of course, about all of the debates that are roiling this

country concerning not the war in Iraq, but concerning the war that continues to preoccupy the

American imagination, the war in Vietnam. It's a very strange thing that at times, even in the

midst of a bitter presidential campaign, rather than focusing

on what this United States does next regarding our policy in the Middle East, our struggle

against murderous terrorists who want to destroy us all, rather than discussing what we do

concerning that, we have been totally preoccupied with debates, with arguments about who did what to whom

during the Vietnam era more than 30 years ago. Now, this is very, very strange, even for those of us who

are old enough to remember the Vietnam War, but imagine the confusion of all of those Americans,

and there are now many, many of them, about a third of the country

who are too young to remember anything at all about the Vietnam era.

What does it all mean?

Well, one of the things it means is that the United States has been poisoned by three absolutely despicable, irresponsible, and potentially deadly lies about the Vietnam War.

And in order for us to try to focus realistically on what we face right now and on the lessons that we should have learned, should be learning from the past,

I'm going to devote this very special broadcast to trying to blow away, to obliterate, to correct, with the clear light of the truth, the three big lies about Vietnam.

Those lies are, number one, that the Vietnam War was an unconstitutional conflict that reflected a brutal drive for U.S. imperialism, a desire to dominate the whole world.

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