The disgusting new york times is using the same tactics they used to defeat America in Vietnam 30 years ago. John F'n Kerry led that treachery. America is getting a repeat performance. Let's hope voters are smarter today.
This is me vomiting.
>>Although he died bravely, Lieutenant VandeGeer's death was as senseless as those of the 58,000 who died before him in the fool's errand known as Vietnam.
This statement is disgusting. I'm sure the mother of the soldier who is the focus of this story unfortunately feels her son's death was senseless but did the author of this article check with the other 57,999 mothers to verify how they felt. /rhethorical
LOL. The New York Times, seeking to smear Bush, accidentily stumbles upon Arlington Cemetary. Bets they had to look it up on MapQuest?
Knowing what a hotbutton, and a still-festering wound, the Vietnam War was for most Americans, the mainstream media is all so eager to hammer home this analogy.
The difference between Iraq and Vietnam, or one of many differences I should say, is that we've had 1,000 soldiers die in Iraq. In Vietnam, we lost as many as 2,000 a month.
Get a perspective, NYT!
Ho Humm! Another hate GW article from the house organ of Gay Activist pretending to be journalists, the NY Slimes.
When John O'Neill debated him on the Dick Cavett show on June 30 of that year this exchange occurred according to Unfit for Command:
For what it is worth the actual number of deaths occurring after America pulled out was closer to 3.5 million! (Can we afford to elect a President with judgment this poor?)
I doubt that Kerry cares as much as President Bush for the loss of lives in Iraq; Kerry's only purpose for mentioning the numbers is to advance his hypocritical campaign. But as sorry as we are for every soldier who has lost his life or been wounded in Iraq, we honor them for the noble work they are doing in that country. John Kerry's complaints does them great disservice, and is just one among many things that disqualifies him from being our next Commander in Chief.
Dear Mr. Herbert,
I see you are taking the same tack as your hero John Flippin' Kerry. The longer you and your ilk browbeat, mischaracterize and slander the Brave Fighting Soldiers in Iraq and their CIC, the longer it will take to win this war and bring those Soldiers home. You and Walter Cronkite, John Kerry and Jane Fonda did it back in the early seventies and you're trying to do it again today. I'll have no part in your treasonous non support of the war effort and furthermore you can kiss my proud American @ss!
Regards,
Liberty
These are precisely the same style of "reporting" and commentary that were used by the leftist media to defeat the U.S. three decades ago. They are hoping they can once again demoralize and discourage enough of the citizenry to force a retreat and abandonment of the war effort. Back then when I read this stuff it worked pretty much as the writers intended. Today when I read it I go to the internet and start searching for sites reporting and analyzing the war to get multiple viewpoints from people both here and in Iraq.
And guess what? I find that the people who write this defeatist tripe are lying through their teeth. The war is going well. The terrorists are still confined to 3 or 4 hotspots. They are indeed becoming more proficient in their tactics (practice makes perfect) but are still taking heavy losses. The vast majority of Iraqis do not support the Baathist die-hards and hate the foreign terrorists that have infiltrated into the country since major operations ended. Of course they want the fighting to stop. But they don't want a return of the Baathist regime or the establishment of an Islamofascist theocratic despotism.
Our troops are not suffering from lowered morale or discouragement and aside from the normal desire to get this over with and back home their main complaint seems to be that they haven't been allowed to go in and clean out the terrorist enclaves. But they uniformly report that they have the situaion under control and rebuilding is proceeding apace.
This war, like all wars, has its good days and bad. But the trend is overwhelmingly in our favor and will remain so as long as the people of this country maintain their determination and resolve.
The leftist media is the gravest enemy we face in this war. The term "enemy" is quite accurate.
And the NYT is still the left's last bastion of liberal propaganda...
We never lost a battle in Viet Nam and have never lost a battle in Iraq!
And if not for Kerry, Fonda and their ilk, the commies would have surrendered in Viet Nam in '71.
And that's the bottom line!
Kerry lied
and good men died!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I am sorry for Lieutenant VandeGeer's death and he is a REAL HERO
BUT HE VOLUNTERED DID HE NOT?
Not only did we leave Vietnam under the umbrella of a treaty, which gave us the right to fly B-52's over Hanoi and begin where we left off in December 1972. They most definitely did not want that. But they saw that our ability to do anything was neutered by the Watergate crisis, and our position was destroyed by a DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED CONGRESS which refused to approve any money to guarantee the success of a deterrent threat. When the NV saw that, the blood was in the water, and the fall of the South was only a matter of time. And then the bloodbath began.
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It's unfortunate that we lose soldiers instead of journalists...
Personally these people make me sick