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Afghanistan: Fraud, Troops and Joe Biden

Oct. 17, 2009
There have been widespread allegations of fraud in the Afghanistan vote count, which has President Hamid Karzai leading. Election officials will soon announce whether President Karzai is the outright winner or if he must face the second-place finisher Abdullah Abdullah, in a runoff. Host Scott...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic