Posted on 11/03/2004 6:14:15 AM PST by stayout
For your consideration and reflection . . .
Of course, the objective truth was quite the opposite: American forces never lost a battlefield skirmish against the enemy; further, in the greater context of the Cold War, Vietnam was but one battle in an overall victory against Communism and Soviet aggression. The South Vietnamese lost Vietnam only because the anti-American crowd here (yes, anti-American) -- exemplified by the likes of Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite, and John Kerry -- convinced Americans not to support our freedom-loving brethren in South Vietnam. But truth never stood in the way of the leftist elite in the media, universities, and public education system from continuing to foist their version of "history" upon the American people.
Thus last night produced an ironic victory over perhaps the most famous anti-war protestor of them all: John Kerry. Essentially, in the end, he ran on a "Iraq is Vietnam" platform. Kerry argued over and over again that we should cut and run from the Iraqis like we cut and run from the South Vietnamese. Kerry and his supporters all but recovened the "Winter Soldier" hearings to make their point that "once again, bad imperialist America is trying to impose its will upon a a 'people's' insurgency." Well, guess what Mr. Kerry and your supporters: the American people have decisively rejected your approach. We will not cut and run this time. We will not desert our freedom-loving brethren in Baghdad. We do not accept your "Vietnam-was-a-hopeless-quagmire" paradigm. Freedom is worth fighting for and was worth fighting for. In short, Mr. Kerry, the supreme irony of your campaign's revisiting of the Vietnam War was to redirect history towards the view that Vietnam was just a waystop on the road towards worldwide human freedom -- and that anyone who stood in the way of that result (especially including you) stood in the wrong.
Amen Brother
Another parrallel to your fine post is THIS TIME, THE AMERICAN MEDIA DID NOT DEFEAT AMERICA! Revenge/justice served for our side!
Another parrallel to your fine post is THIS TIME, THE AMERICAN MEDIA DID NOT DEFEAT AMERICA! Revenge/justice served for our side!
Thank you...
We have to thank the Swifties, and I hope that everybody will send them a 'Thank you' note.
I was quite happy to help win one for our men in Vietnam!
*SIDE NOTE: My 78 year old mother-in-law (who had 2 sons serve in VN & has a grandson who just returned from Iraq) voted Republican for the first time. She said she could no longer make excuses or hold hope for the "party" she has spent her life supporting. It was a vote for a "party" or a vote for "God, Country and Family." She chose the morally correct vote.
The spit was washed from thier uniforms, but the stain remains in memory. Thanks for posting.
33 years waiting for today!
I've said the following before, but never with so many voices behind me --
HANOI JOHN, STFU !!!!!!!
We don't believe what the the media and the leftists say about you.
American soldiers and bravehearts, we have not forgotten you. Whatever life holds for you now and in the future, please go forward knowing that American honors and loves you. The "Traitor" John Kerry and his ilk have been destroyed!!!
How does that grab you?
All true. Now if we can just get the "historian class" to recognize it!
Ditto that. Things have changed.
Good idea. I just did exactly that!
But they sure tried like hell. We've got to come up with a TV news ord to the right of FOX.
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