Josef Goebbels would have given his right arm to have this kind of media ally in World War II America.
Posted on 10/17/2005 5:11:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
The left seems to think that Iraq is like Vietnam, what they fail to recognize is that after we abandoned the Vietnamese, the Viet Cong didn't have any intention of coming to the United States to kill us.
I seriously believe that everytime a troop is brutally murdered, a 2008 democratic anti-war candidate smiles
http://newsbusters.org/node/2144
Media Forget History of American Constitution When Reporting on Iraq's
Posted by John Armor on October 12, 2005 - 14:26.
And... after we left Vietnam, Polpot when on a killing spree in Cambodia, killing millions. Same thing will probably happen there if we leave too early.
Those of us who have lived through the VietNam era remember all to well the hatchet job done by the media and the anti-American movements. They convinced America, based on the false testimony of those like John Kerry, "Hanoi" Jane and a willing Congress, etc. to abandon VietNam and the US military. Too many of us are still around and that wound will never be healed.
And tragically, too many of you were blamed for not doing what the left prevented you from doing. The NVA and VC could have been eliminated in weeks were it not for the likes of sKerry, Hanoi Jane and Cronkite.
It means the same thing that the Vietnam war did - that the U.S. must never be allowed to take an action, especially not a military action, that is not approved in advance by internationalists and in the interest of the advancement of internationalism and the detriment of nationalism. That internationalism was identified with world socialism for a very long time and still carries that cachet.
What that implies in practical terms is that a U.S. failure in any policy represents a step toward an idealized future, the exact mechanism of which is theoretical and murky but believed in with all the fervor of a religious fanatic. The left has lost its collective vision of where it is going; all that remains is a certainty that where it is must be wrong.
Dittos Rush
They sure are invested in an American defeat. They've opposed this thing from the start. A defeat would allow them to say, "We told you so." Big boost for the Left's belief in it's own infallibility.
We shouldn't allow the Left to get away with lying about the situation in Iraq.
likes of sKerry, Hanoi Jane and Cronkite.
If you're going to just toss names around toss the right one - Lyndon Johnson. Johnson would not allow the military to do what it needed to do to win the war. Our military could have bombed N. Vietnam into oblivion in 2 weeks time.
Everytime a trop is killed, most Americans (who care) winces. We should not be there any longer. The Iraqis know how to fight. They now know how to vote. We need to take the training wheels off, or they will forever be a crippled state, sucking down the US treasury.
I believe that most citizens in this country would be supporting this war almost 100% were it not for the lies and propaganda of the left supplied to us by their lap dog media.
I usually explain it this way: The left thinks we can afford to lose this, I don't.
Appears to be happening now...and has been. Fast enough for you?
we should leave when it makes sense for us to leave, and not one day sooner. when we are sure that IRAN will not try to subvert a legally empowered government in Iraq, well THEN we can leave...
Josef Goebbels would have given his right arm to have this kind of media ally in World War II America.
There's no need for Iran to subvert anything... we seem to have allowed a very Iran-friendly constitution to be voted on. It made sense to have given them a constitution that made sense for our purposes last year, had them vote on it, and then left.
Unfortunately, the path we've chosen to take leaves us there indefinitely..
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Good post!
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