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Black XXV: "More Than $2 Trillion!!"
The MudCave | 17 March 2004 (Happy St. Patrick's Day!!) | Mudboy Slim

Posted on 03/17/2004 10:38:56 AM PST by Mudboy Slim

"More Than $2 Trillion!!"
(To be sung to Boston's "More Than a Feeling")

The LeftWing's in mourning 'cuz SlickWillie's gone...
RATS have no future...with Jean Kerry!!
Right votes fer Strength, not like Spain Done Wrong...
Still, our liberties are stripped away-ay-ay-ay!!

The RightWing needs FReepin'...(more than $2 Trillion!!)
When we hear Big Guv'ment's been holdin' sway (more than $2 Trillion!!)
RightWing needs FReepers (almost $3 Trillion!!)
'Til we see Big Guv'ment melt away...
We'll see our Liberties fadin' away!!

So many FReepers have come and gone...
Their mem'ry fades as the years go by.
Yet I still recall list'nin' ta Limbaugh...
Each year when we vote, Fed budget's too hi-i-igh!!

The RightWing needs FReepin'...(more than $2 Trillion!!)
Folks, I've heard Dem ol' excuses still today (more than $2 Trillion!!)
RightWing needs FReepin' (almost $3 Trillion!!)
'Til we see Big Guv'ment melt away...
High time that Conservatives win the day!!

(Guitar jammin' interlude)

When I'm tired and feelin' old...
I think about Reagan, who saved the day!!
And dream of the men who used to know...
If we close our eyes, FReedom'll slip away!!
DemRATS must pay!! Right must hold sway!!

The LeftWing is reelin'!! (more than $2 Trillion!!)
Folks, we've heard RAT's ol' songs they always play... (more than $2 Trillion!!)
The RightWing needs FReepin'...(almost $3 Trillion!!)
'Till we see KerryMan slink away...
We Shan't Let Slick Willie Git Away !!

Black XXV FReegards...MUD


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To: Corin Stormhands
Welcome back from Lent, Mr. Right...MUD
381 posted on 04/12/2004 4:37:42 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band
"New Bridge to FReedom!!"
(To be sung to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven")

(TheBigMan on twelve-string...MUD on flute...)

There's a Party who's sure...
All Left's Minions Are Dolts...
They're defilin' Right's New Bridge to FReedom.
When Left first hears...they know...
Medyuh Whore'd is RATS' Ho!!
HollyWeirdSlick will git what he raped for.
Ooh~ooh~ooh Ooh~ooh~ooh~ooh~ooh.
And RATS're lyin' 'bout Slick Willie's Treason.
There are signs Left Shall Fall!!
'Cuz Truth haunts Left fer sure...
And you know Willie's words have no meaning.
In a cave, reading books,
There's a Patriot who sings...
"Lib'rals, all of yer thoughts are Ms. Streisand!!

Oooh...it makes me wonder.
Ooooh...don't it make YOU wonder?!

There's a feelin' I get...
When I look at the Left
And my spirit starts crying "They're dimwits!!"
Yes, MUD's thoughts Right Shall Sing...
Rings of smoke from MUD's cave...
Heed the voices of those who hear Limbaugh!!

Oooh...Rush makes me wonder.
Oooh...don't Rush make Left shudder?!

Next, MUD whispered that soon...
"If Right all sings in tune...
Then, George Dubyuh shall lead us with Reason!!"
And a new day will dawn...
For those who stand strong...
And our children will burst out in laughter!!
(Does Anybody Remember Laughter?!!)

Oh~ooh whoah~ooh whoah~ooh whoah~ooh
Whoah~hooh~oh~ohh.

If there's a question in your head, folks,
Don't be alarmed now...
It's a reaction to the RAPE-King!!
Yes, there are two paths you can go by,
And, my Lib'ral FRiends,
Folks, there's still time to change the road you're on!!

Folks, it makes me wonder.
Ahhh~ah-oh~hoh.

The Left is drownin' and RATS won't go
To where Ol' Slick's goin'...
John Ashcroft's callin' you to join him!!
Sweet ladies, can you hear Left's Lies Flow?!
And did you know...
Yer FReedom lies with the RighteousRightWi~hahh~ah-ohh?

And as we Fight DemLib'ral HO's...
Dutch Reagan's larger than Left knows.
There walks a Nation Strong and Bold!!
Who knows what's Right...WE want to show...
How America's future is gold...
And if you listen very hard
MUD's tunes will come to you at last.
When all are 0one and Guv'ment's small-yeah...
'Cuz Right Shall Rock and Then We'll Ro__ll!!

And Right's Building a New Bridge to FReedom!!

FReegards...MUD


382 posted on 04/12/2004 4:41:06 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
MUD my friend, you have an open invitation; give me 48 hours notice and we're on, weather permitting . . .

Vintage? I'm of the opinion that Rock n' Roll was perfected in the '70s. Definitely Old School. I was thinking you could pen a fine remake of a Canned Heat tune . . .
383 posted on 04/12/2004 5:37:22 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan
Thanks fer the invite, BraveMan...I've been to Chicago a few times, but never headed north to Milwaukee. I need to, though...the Bucks have been my favorite B-Ball team since Jabbar's rookie year and I hear y'all gots some good beer.

I don't know many Canned Heat songs, but I recognize this one...

Canned Heat's "GOIN' UP THE COUNTRY"
(Alan Wilson)

Woodstock Version

Gotta get goin', cause I can't stay here long, now.
Cause I'm tired of the way, I've been dogged around.
Well, I've got to roam, maybe find me a brand-new home.

I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' to some place where I've never been before.

I'm goin', I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine.
Well, I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine.
You can jump in the water and stay drunk all the time.

--- Solo ---

I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
All this fussin' and fightin', man you know I sure can't stay.

Now baby, packin' up the truck you know I got to leave today.
Just exacly where I'm goin' I can not say, but we might even leave the USA.
It's a brand-new game and I don't wanna play.

--- Solo ---

No use of you running or screaming and crying
But you got a home man, long as I got mine.

Gotta get goin', gotta get goin', gotta get goin', gotta get goin'.
Gotta get goin', well I'm goin', well I'm goin'...

Gotta get goin', I can't stay here long now.
Cause I'm tired of the way I've been dogged around.
Well, I've got to roam, maybe find me a brand new home....

I'll see what I can do with it...MUD
384 posted on 04/12/2004 7:40:16 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Landru; sultan88; jla; BOBTHENAILER; backhoe; Happygal; goldilucky; FBD; dead
Andy Rooney's "Our Soldiers in Iraq Aren't Heroes!!"

"Treating soldiers fighting their war as brave heroes is an old civilian trick designed to keep the soldiers at it. But you can be sure our soldiers in Iraq are not all brave heroes gladly risking their lives for us sitting comfortably back here at home. Our soldiers in Iraq are people, young men and women, and they behave like people - sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes brave, sometimes fearful. It's disingenuous of the rest of us to encourage them to fight this war by idolizing them.

We pin medals on their chests to keep them going. We speak of them as if they volunteered to risk their lives to save ours, but there isn't much voluntary about what most of them have done. A relatively small number are professional soldiers. During the last few years, when millions of jobs disappeared, many young people, desperate for some income, enlisted in the Army. About 40 percent of our soldiers in Iraq enlisted in the National Guard or the Army Reserve to pick up some extra money and never thought they'd be called on to fight. They want to come home. ....We must support our soldiers in Iraq because it's our fault they're risking their lives there. However, we should not bestow the mantle of heroism on all of them for simply being where we sent them. Most are victims, not heroes."

Rooney's a LooneyLefty...MUD

385 posted on 04/12/2004 7:51:36 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: leadpenny; Taxman; MeekOneGOP; blackie; AuntB; PhiKapMom; cherry_bomb88; Corin Stormhands; KLT
FILE A COMPLAINT AGAINST ANDY ROONEY!!

Rooney's bosses need to get an earful from FReepers...MUD

386 posted on 04/12/2004 7:55:11 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
I just sent this to See-B.S....

This time Andy Rooney has gone to far. He's always been a sniveling, whiney little twit. But to speak disparagingly of our soldiers while WE ARE AT WAR is despicable. He has sided with the terrorists. And if you let him get away with it, you have too.

387 posted on 04/12/2004 7:59:47 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in this tagline.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
You do have a way with words, Mr. 2right...MUD
388 posted on 04/12/2004 8:17:31 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Snow Bunny; Landru; FallGuy; coteblanche; ArneFufkin
"Lib'rals!!"
(To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Angie")

Lib'rals...my FRiends...
When will yer hatred disappear?!
Leftists...my bro's...
Help tell Dem zealots, "NEVER HERE!!"
With good intents in their souls...
IGNORANT FOOLS...EVIL Goals!!
Please explain why Clinton Lied!!
But Lib'rals...my FRiends...
'Twas fer FReedom that FReepers fight!!

Lib'rals...are ignorant...yeah...
Minion DOLTS...put HATE aside!!
Lib'rals...we'll still love ya...
MLK ain't fer gen-o-cide!!
All Left's dreams they were so close...
But they all went up in smoke!!
Let me whisper in yer ear,
"Osama...bil Clinton...YOU SHALL BE DETHRONED NEXT YEAR!!!"

(Haunting keyboard solo)

So...daughters, gently sleep...
Fer yer futures, Right does FReep!!
Avenge Slick Willie's shameless crimes!!
And soldiers...Our Sons, please just know that "WE ARE RIGHT!!"

'Cuz there's lovin' in our souls...
And there's Honor in our goals!!
Fer yer FReedom we shall fight!!
'Cuz Lib'rals...FReepers love ya, baby...
Everywhere Left looks, they'll fear our Might!!
We won't let DemonRATS git their claws in you...
C'mon FReepers, join the Fight!!
Lib'rals...Dimwits...ain't it good to be alive?!
Sosh'lists...my FRiends...you can't say MUD never tried...

FReegards...MUD

3 posted on 9/18/01 11:44 AM Eastern by Mudboy Slim

Revised today...MUD

15 posted on 11/16/2002 7:01:59 AM EST by Mudboy Slim
389 posted on 04/12/2004 8:43:45 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Done ! I just fired my complaint off from TGYC's link and pinged my list
to it too ! I hope that old fa*t Andy Rooney is fired, or retires ....

390 posted on 04/13/2004 3:04:44 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
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To: MeekOneGOP
"I hope that old fa*t Andy Rooney is fired, or retires ...."

I just hope he's forced to retire, he's just too durned anti-American...just like Walter Cronkite really.

FReegards...MUD

391 posted on 04/13/2004 4:35:21 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: ForGod'sSake; BraveMan; Landru; international american; sultan88; George W. Bush; Reagan Man
"RightWinger Uprise!!"
(To be sung to the Eagles' "Tequila Sunrise!!")

RATS're Fearin' OUR Righteous Uprise...
'Cuz Slick Willie is gonna FRY...
Clinton's MINE!!

MUD is just a hired hand,
Working on the FReeps he plans to try...
McAuliffe's MINE!!

Folks, WE're Right when WE FReep RATS' clowns...
Justice Shall Be OURS Once Slick Goes Down...
He'll Be SQUEEEEEEALIN' LOUD!!

Slick wasn't just a-nother Lib'ral,
And Right hasta FReep RATS' Lyin' SCUM!!
Slick, say "So long!!"

Folks, it'll be such a wondrous feelin'...
When we get Slick Re-Impeached!!
Truth shan't be spin'd!!

Take another shot of courage,
Wonder why the RightWing never sung?!
Just know that The Righteous Shall Triumph!!
Slick's Chi-Com SCUM!!

It's another RightWinger Uprise,
This whole world won't be the same...
DemonRAT Shame!!

Ooo-ooo-ooo, ooo-ooo-ooo, ooo-ooo-ooo

FReegards...MUD
392 posted on 04/13/2004 4:41:30 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
"...to speak disparagingly of our soldiers while WE ARE AT WAR is despicable. He has sided with the terrorists."

Absolutely right...it's US versus THEM in the War on Terrorism, and the American Left has become inextricably enjoined with THEM!! They've become THEM!!

"And if you let him get away with it, you have too."

Yep...that goes fer SeeBS, 60 minutes, Hanoi John, and the American voting populace!!

FReegards...MUD

393 posted on 04/13/2004 4:45:15 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band
"Dubyuh to Press His Case on TeeVee!!"

"President Bush tonight holds his first full-scale news conference of the year to talk about U.S. plans in Iraq and to defend his pre-9/11 terror policy. The prime-time news conference, scheduled for 8:30 p.m., comes during what Bush himself called a "tough week" for U.S. forces in Iraq, and just days after the White House declassified and released an Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence brief that warned Bush that Osama bin Laden wanted to strike inside the United States. Bush decided last Thursday that it would be a good idea to hold tonight's press conference, making his decision just hours after his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, publicly defended his handling of terror threats in her testimony to the 9/11 commission. "It would be a good time to update the American people on where we are and where we are going in Iraq," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "I'm interested in answering more questions for you all," Bush told reporters at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. "Pick out a red or blue tie."

Must-See TeeVee...MUD

394 posted on 04/13/2004 4:49:13 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band; Ragtime Cowgirl; summer; Cincinatus' Wife; d14truth; sweetliberty; PhiKapMom
"Drive!!"
(To be sung to Incubus' "Drive")

Sometimes, I feel Left's Fear of...
RATS' Implosion...Then I Cheer!!
And I can't help but ask myself WHY dolts...
Would let Left's Fear make their lives soooo queer?!!!

Reject the Medyuh Whore'd!! Willie seemed to have a Faint,
Shallow Mass Appeal!!
But lately I am beginning to find that I...
Should be the one making Slick squeeeeeeal!!

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there...
With well-stocked arms and lidless eyes, yeah!!
Whatever the Lib'rals sing, I'll be there...
RATS, BEWARE!!!!

Oh yes I...decide to waiver my
Chance to Believe the Left's Jive!!
Yes, I'll choose FReedom over whine...
We'll Fight Left's Whore'd and Drive!! Oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh!!

Right Must Defeat Left's Whore'd!! Justice seems to be the way...
That Tyranny can be brought down!!
Folks, lately I'm beginning to find that...
When we fight to win...Lord's Light Joins OURS!!

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there...
With well-stocked arms and lidless eyes, yeah!!
Whatever the Lib'rals sing, I'll be there...
RATS, BEWARE!!!!

Shouldn't YOU choose more FReedom and less whine?!
RE-IMPEACH RATS' Slime!!

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there...
With well-stocked arms and lidless eyes, yeah!!
Whatever the Lib'rals sing, I'll be there...
RATS, BEWARE!!!!

Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo...

FReegards...MUD

115 Posted on 08/31/2001 04:32:12 PDT by Mudboy Slim (Corralin' the Passions of GenerationNext!!!)
395 posted on 04/13/2004 4:58:08 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: GeorgeW23225; Landru; sultan88; jla; FBD; MeekOneGOP; pachanga
FORWARDED MESSAGE FROM IRAQ:
Subject: : Is Failure Now an Option?

From a retired Marine LtCol (Intel) buddy of mine. Good information.

This "In Country" assessment is provided by my son who is serving with Task Force Olympia. For many of us it's "deja vu" all over again. Semper Fi, Gil

Dad,
I don't know if you still have it, but if you remember an email that I sent back in late January/early February time frame. I specifically stated that we (the military) knew that within a couple of months, that the insurgents were going to try their version of TET here in Iraq. Especially after we intercepted one of Musab Zarqouwi's letters. Again, he stated that they (insurgency) were being defeated by the U.S. military forces and that time was running out for the insurgency to achieve any victory. What we are seeing now is their last push to influence the 30 June hand over and the will of the coalition (Japanese/Korean hostages). As stated in Zarqouwi's letter, if this does not work, they are done. The article below is right on the money, the only way that we are going to be beat is by bias media reporting, and an uneducated/emotional American population. Even though we are taking some casualties (war?) and the news is reporting mass chaos in Iraq right now, I can assure you that the reality on the ground is that we are handing their heads to them on a platter. The insurgents know it and the guys we capture admit it, hopefully the media stops sensationalizing and start being more objective about the big picture.

Mike gilford robinson wrote:

Analysis: A mini-Tet offensive in Iraq?
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
Published 4/6/2004 4:12 PM

WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- Any seasoned reporter covering the Tet offensive in Vietnam 36 years ago is well over 60 and presumably retired or teaching journalism is one of America's 4,200 colleges and universities. Before plunging into an orgy of erroneous and invidious historical parallels between Iraq and Vietnam, a reminder about what led to the U.S. defeat in Southeast Asia is timely.

Iraq will only be another Vietnam if the home front collapses, as it did following the Tet offensive, which began on the eve of the Chinese New Year, Jan. 31, 1968. The surprise attack was designed to overwhelm some 70 cities and towns, and 30 other strategic objectives simultaneously. By breaking a previously agreed truce for Tet festivities, master strategist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi calculated that South Vietnamese troops would be caught with defenses down.

After the first few hours of panic, the South Vietnamese troops reacted fiercely. They did the bulk of the fighting and took some 6,000 casualties. Vietcong units not only did not reach a single one of their objectives -- except when they arrived by taxi at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, blew their way through the wall into the compound and guns blazing made it into the lobby before they were wiped out by U.S. Marines -- but they lost some 50,000 killed and at least that many wounded. Giap had thrown some 70,000 troops into a strategic gamble that was also designed to overwhelm 13 of the 16 provincial capitals and trigger a popular uprising. But Tet was an unmitigated military disaster for Hanoi and its Vietcong troops in South Vietnam. Yet that was not the way it was reported in U.S. and other media around the world. It was television's first war. And some 50 million Americans at home saw the carnage of dead bodies in the rubble, and dazed Americans running around.

As the late veteran war reporter Peter Braestrup documented in "Big Story" -- a massive, two-volume study of how Tet was covered by American reporters -- the Vietcong offensive was depicted as a military disaster for the United States. By the time the facts emerged a week or two later from RAND Corp. interrogations of prisoners and defectors, the damage had been done. Conventional media wisdom had been set in concrete. Public opinion perceptions in the United States changed accordingly.

RAND made copies of these POW interrogations available. But few reporters seemed interested. In fact, the room where they were on display was almost always empty. Many Vietnamese civilians who were fence sitters or leaning toward the Vietcong, especially in the region around Hue City, joined government ranks after they witnessed Vietcong atrocities. Several mass graves were found with some 4,000 unarmed civil servants and other civilians, stabbed or with skulls smashed by clubs. The number of communist defectors, known as "chieu hoi," increased fourfold. And the "popular uprising" anticipated by Giap, failed to materialize. The Tet offensive also neutralized much of the clandestine communist infrastructure.

As South Vietnamese troops fought Vietcong remnants in Cholon, the predominantly Chinese twin city of Saigon, reporters, sipping drinks in the rooftop bar of the Caravelle Hotel, watched the fireworks 2 miles away. America's most trusted newsman, CBS' Walter Cronkite, appeared for a standup piece with distant fires as a backdrop. Donning helmet, Cronkite declared the war lost. It was this now famous television news piece that persuaded President Johnson six weeks later, on March 31, not to run. His ratings had plummeted from 80 percent when he assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's death to 30 percent after Tet. His handling of the war dropped to 20 percent, his credibility shot to pieces.

Until Tet, a majority of Americans agreed with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson that failure was not an option. It was Kennedy who changed the status of U.S. military personnel from advisers to South Vietnamese troops to full-fledged fighting men. By the time of Kennedy's assassination in Nov. 22, 1963, 16,500 U.S. troops had been committed to the war. Johnson escalated all the way to 542,000. But defeat became an option when Johnson decided the war was unwinnable and that he would lose his bid for the presidency in November 1968. Hanoi thus turned military defeat into a priceless geopolitical victory.

With the Vietcong wiped out in the Tet offensive, North Vietnamese regulars moved south down the Ho Chi Minh trails through Laos and Cambodia to continue the war. Even Giap admitted in his memoirs that news media reporting of the war and the anti-war demonstrations that ensued in America surprised him. Instead of negotiating what he called a conditional surrender, Giap said they would now go the limit because America's resolve was weakening and the possibility of complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp.

Hanoi's Easter offensive in March 1972 was another disaster for the communists. Some 70,000 North Vietnamese troops were wiped out -- by the South Vietnamese who did all the fighting. The last American soldier left Vietnam in March 1973. And the chances of the South Vietnamese army being able to hack it on its own were reasonably good. With one proviso: Continued U.S. military assistance with weapons and hardware, including helicopters. But Congress balked, first by cutting off military assistance to Cambodia, which enabled Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge communists to take over, which, in turn, was followed by a similar Congressional rug pulling from under the South Vietnamese, that led to rapid collapse of morale in Saigon.

The unraveling, with Congress pulling the string, was so rapid that even Giap was caught by surprise. As he recounts in his memoirs, Hanoi had to improvise a general offensive -- and then rolled into Saigon two years before they had reckoned it might become possible.

That is the real lesson for the U.S. commitment to Iraq. Whatever one thought about the advisability of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the United States is there with 100,000 troops and a solid commitment to endow Iraq with a democratic system of government. While failure is not an option for Bush, it clearly is for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who called Iraq the president's Vietnam. It is, of course, no such animal. But it could become so if Congressional resolve dissolves.

Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, he made clear the anti-war movement in the United States, which led to the collapse of political will in Washington, was "essential to our strategy."

Visits to Hanoi by Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and various church ministers "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."

America lost the war, concluded Bui Tin, "because of its democracy. Through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win." Kennedy should remember that Vietnam was the war of his brother who saw the conflict in the larger framework of the Cold War and Nikita Khrushchev's threats against West Berlin. It would behoove Kennedy to see Iraq in the larger context of the struggle to bring democracy, not only to Iraq, but the entire Middle East.

(Arnaud de Borchgrave covered Tet as Newsweek's chief foreign correspondent and had seven tours in Vietnam between 1951 under the French and 1972.)

396 posted on 04/13/2004 5:13:57 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mia T
See Mudboy Slim's post 396
397 posted on 04/13/2004 5:18:19 AM PDT by jla
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To: jla; Jim Robinson; Mia T; Jeff Head; Dukie; AuntB; M. Thatcher; holdonnow; stand watie
"I Dreamed I Met Jim Robinson!!"
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine")

(Mudboy on harp...)

I dreamed I met Jim Robinson,
Dude's loved by all who FReep!!
Lurkin' 'roun' Jim's Forum, FRiends...
Fightin' fer our Liberty!!
We're defending our Right to Bear Arms...
Leftists' Culture's oh so cold...
Battling fer the Country's Soul...
Our Forefathers Make US Bold!!

"RiseUP, my FRiends!!" MUD sang out loud,
In a voice with no restraint,
"Come out, my gifted FReeperFRiends...
Help US Put Slick in CHAINS!!
No Lib'ral is amongst ye now...
Whom you can call "HERO!!"
So Fight the Fight Fer Liberty...
And know You're Not Alone!!"

(MUD workin' the harmonica hard...)

I dreamed I FReeped with Rush Limbaugh,
Libs cower at his every breath!!
And I dreamed I was amongst the ones...
Who FReeped Slick 'til his Death!!
NO, I don't FReep in anger,
Just becuz EX-Prez'dent LIED!!
I just like whuppin' DemonRAT A$$...
And Raise My Voice With Pride!!

(Sweet Harpin' to close...)

FReegards...MUD

231 posted on 12/24/2002 7:06:10 PM EST by Mudboy Slim
398 posted on 04/13/2004 5:54:37 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: conservativemusician; ATOMIC_PUNK; EdZep
"Kerry's Lyin'!!"
(To be sung to Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin'")

Slim saw the look in John's eyes, MUD knew he's better!!
MUD asked his FRiends to Fight!! ...FReepers, it's now or never!!
Slick makes MUD feel so MAD!!!
Oh, whoa, whoa, Kerry's cryin'...
Oh, whoa, whoa, Terry's lyin'!!
McAuliffe finally said, "All right!! MUD, as a Man, yer much BETTER!!
MUD, I am afraid to Fight, ah, oh, so all my ties I'll now sever!!"
MUD said to send Slick a letter, uh yeah yeah...
Uh just to try to make yerself feel better
It said "Willie (Yer Gonna Fall, YOU Slime!!")
And Slick knows Mudboy'll git 'em!!
Oh, whoa, whoa, Fairy's cryin'!!
Oh, whoa, whoa, Kerry's lyin'!!
Now Mudboy's been in love before (ahhh)
And he knows what Power is for (ahhh)
It should mean, a little, a little more (ahhh)
Than one night stands, whoo!!

MUD's gonna send Slick a letter, uh yeah yeah
Just to Let Slick Knows Who's Gonna Git HIM!!
Slim sang "Willie (Yer Gonna Fall, You Slime!!)
'Cuz the Kerry's a BedWetter!!"
Oh, whoa, whoa, Lib'ral's cryin'...
Oh, whoa, whoa, LeftWing's Dyin'...
Oh, whoa, whoa, RATS'll be FRyin'...
Oh, whoa, whoa, Clinton's Lyin'...
Oh, whoa, whoa, Slick'll Be Whinin'!!

Heh heh heh...MUD (12/29/2002)
399 posted on 04/13/2004 6:06:05 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Four Hunnerd...MUD
400 posted on 04/13/2004 6:06:43 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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