Posted on 09/27/2005 11:45:30 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The nation's two highest military officials rejected comparisons yesterday between Iraq and Vietnam in the aftermath of Saturday's anti-war demonstration on the Mall that rekindled memories of an unpopular war four decades ago.
More than 100,000 people protested the Iraq war amid polls that show fewer than 50 percent of Americans support the battle to foster a democracy in Iraq. Demonstrators compared President Bush to President Johnson, who ordered more than 500,000 troops to Vietnam in the 1960s.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican and a Vietnam veteran, also have compared the 2?-year Iraq war to the United States' 12 years in Vietnam.
But Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a fighter pilot in Vietnam, dismissed the comparison during an appearance in the Pentagon press room.
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Is that 100,000 figure they're using for the protests, worldwide -- including those watching at home on their television sets?
What the heck does teddy know ?
Teddy enlisted in the army for 4 years, during the Korean war.
Daddy Joe had a conniption, made one call and got teddy's enlistment reduced to 2 years and got him stationed in Europe.
What does this have to do with this thread ? Nothing.
Just some little known trivia about the scuba diver.
Hagel is Kerry. Kerry is Hagel.
and capitalism, and Bush, and racism, and Bush, and Cheney, and Bush, and Halliburton, and Bush, and oil, and Bush, and showers, and Bush, and haircuts, and Bush, and deodorant, and Bush, shaving one's armpits, and Bush....
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The only link between Vietnam & Irag...
...is the same Liberal American Media's trying to get America to abandon both in Time of War.
And, Oh, the prices to be paid by the once Free:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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A young Senator TED KENNEDY in 1965's Vietnam, before he went a bit off the deep end:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(See 5th Photo)
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If they using the 100,000 number for the protests in D.C. this last weekend, notice how they're using "The Big Lie" theory used by Goebbels.
Tell it often enough and it becomes the truth! Disgusting!
That, and most of these people stopped learning anything new after the '60s.
a BIT off the deep end????
All that dope.
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