Posted on 04/21/2006 6:01:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Let me congratulate them on already mastering this part. Especially in situations where they don't know what they're talking about.
Uh-huh.
Signing online petitions and sending mass e-mails is alas the fullest extent of DUmmie activism (true activists don't waste a whole lot of time on the internet; they're out in the real world, dealing with real people).
Today's DUmmies make even the hippies of long-ago yesteryear look industrious and hard-working.
Actually, this is good advice. All indications point to the fact that Congresscritters take regular mail far more seriously than faxes, which in turn are taken far more seriously than emails.
That said, this ship sailed a long time ago... as usual, the DUmmies are fighting a battle that has already been relegated to history instead of looking forward.
One good thing... if Congresscritters get (signed) postal mail that include some of the whackier statements these DUmmies make, especially the ones that hint at violence, hopefully some of those letters will get referred to the proper authorities...
Who's the murderous, delusional monster here?
[WASTE PAPER AND CAUSE MORE TREES TO BE CHOPPED DOWN.]
Every time a DUmmie sends a pointless letter to a Congresscritter, Algore sheds another tear for the environment.
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
We didn't start the fire...
I'm a big fan of that song, but I once heard it desribed as sounding like it was a term paper on 20th Century history written by a drunken slacker-student the the wee hours of the morning it was due.
I love how oldleftielawyer is too stupid to know that the Khmer Rouge would have killed him if he was in Cambodia. Great role model dude!
God I hate DUmmies. I only wish they revealed themselves in public so we could identify them better.
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"Except that those of us who filled the streets, especially in Washington D.C. brought the Vietnam war to an end..."
Pridefully celebrating the resulting death of millions of innocent men, women and children. Pridefully celebrating that they brought defeat to the United States. Dummies love being the losers!
From the hindsight of history, and being someone who was never personally, physically, or emotionally involved with the war in Vietnam and its domestic distress, it seems to me something else, and not the stupid pre-DUmmies, brought an end to that war.
From reading the magazines and newspapers of the era, it strikes me that "Middle America" had a great deal to do with it, mostly in the uncertainty about the "aim" of the war.
As late as 1969, public-opinion polls showed less than 25% of Americans wanted us to "cut and run" from Vietnam--for all the good the stupid pre-DUmmies did on the streets.
I get the impression, from contemporary written reports, that the uncertainty of Middle America about that war did more to bring it to its unhappy conclusion.
This is why, with Iraq and Afghanistan, it is important to ignore the "August 1918 syndrome."
No one here of course remembers August 1918, but at that time, America had been involved in the war in Europe for 16 months, and it was a bloody stalemate (I hesitate, strongly and vehemently, to suggest there is any "stalemate" in Iraq and Afghanistan, though). The lines were still where they had always been, nothing moved, and the Germans were sending lots and lots of troops west, having concluded a treaty with the Soviet Russians.
In fact, while I do not remember the dates of battles, it seems to me that the summer of 1918, the Germans had inflicted more damage upon the allies than they had ever done (someone correct me if wrong).
So.....the war seemed to be getting nowhere, and there was much discontent in America, especially among Middle America.
Why were we there? What were we gaining?
Of course, a mere three months later, the Germans collapsed, utterly collapsed.
It makes one freeze the blood, how close we actually came, to withdrawing from Europe, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I thought Vietnam was lost because it was never a declared war. Just a "police action", so our troops had their hands tied. Having not been born until the end of it, I really don't know. Maybe others could tell me?
Imagine you're a congresswoman in 1974...
Since these guys already live in a world of delusion, why don't they just imagine the war is over, or better yet, never happened, and shut up.
What is this, a dress-up fetish for the DU trans-gendered community?
You may be correct; a "police action" is taken merely to "control" a limited situation, while a war is undertaken to win it, period.
This goes back to Middle America not being certain about the "aim" of our involvement in Vietnam.
And yes, it appears the hands of the troops were tied, by micro-managers in Washington.
Incidentally, the "August 1918 syndrome" occurred in Vietnam, too.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but it seems the Tet Offensive of January 1968 broke the back, or nearly broke the back, of the North Vietnamese.
Only the American news media propagated the Tet Offensive as a defeat for America, and our Vietnamese allies--and unfortunately our television-news-permeated society "bought" the story.
Apparently the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong saw the Tet Offensive differently.....and then were pleasantly surprised to see Americans believing a myth.
If one was a congresswoman in 1974, the odds were that one was Republican.
The DUmmies know no history; the first woman (1916) to be a congressman was Republican, and all during the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and into the late 1960s, the overwhelming majority of women in Congress were.....Republican.
In fact, at one time during the late 1960s, early 1970s, the ONLY woman in the U.S. Senate, the ONLY black in the U.S. Senate, and the ONLY Chinese-derived in the U.S. Senate were.....Republican.
But DUmmies don't know this, of course.
The DUmmies must turned out en masse for that particular demonstration, if it was dominated by loopy people and.....bad writing.
Damn, that post 60 is truely a terrorist's handbook. So much for the idea that they stand for peace and nonviolence.
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