Posted on 10/28/2005 8:59:04 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A FEW DAYS AGO, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) made a speech urging the U.S., in effect, to get out of Iraq the way we got out of Vietnam.
Leahy told the Senate that we cannot win in Iraq. "It has become increasingly apparent that the most powerful army in the world cannot stop a determined insurgency." (U.S. troops, Iraqi troops, long-suffering Iraqi civilians to Leahy: Thanks, senator, we needed that.) And Leahy announced that the president must lay out a public formula to tell the world just when U.S. troops will leave Iraq. Otherwise, Leahy said, he will urge the Senate to choke off the war by refusing to fund it. That's how the U.S. finally lost Vietnam: Congress snuffed out the money.
Be warned, senator: If Democrats become the "let's treat Iraq as we treated Vietnam" party, the public will turn away in revulsion, and the Democratic Party will die. It's not in such great shape anyhow.
Leahy's words lighted up a deep, dark secret that this nation would rather forget. Defeat in Vietnam was a catastrophe for the U.S., a body-slam to the nation's self-confidence. It was far worse for Southeast Asians, who were exiled, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by their vicious communist conquerors. But for left-wing Democrats it was a triumph. Forcing the mighty U.S. military to run away was the greatest victory they have ever known. That triumph broke a levee that sent a flood of left-wing ideas pounding across the U.S. landscape.
The 1974 congressional elections were a blow-out victory for Democrats. Watergate was a big factor, but public exhaustion with Vietnam (encouraged by the media) helped too. In 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam, but Washington had promised to support South Vietnam with money and weapons.
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Actually, I prefer the first one without the plane.
The contrast between our President and Moi Flip Flop Kerri is incredible.
Thanks for the ping. This is precisely what the RATS and their media are trying to do -- again.
The Democratic/Republican party is a Vermont local thing. It's just another party, never mind what they call it.
This is a great piece..
LOL!
He's gonna sprain his neck. ;o)
The only similarity between Vietnam and Iraq is the Media's wish for us to lose, both then and now.
Will do. On advice from Freepers, I obtained Ann Coulter's, "Treason" and "Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail. No risk here.
to reiterate -- Term limits.
***.......When Democrat Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976, he had large congressional majorities to work with. Carter described the Vietnam War as "moral poverty" in action. One of his first acts was to pardon all draft evaders at a time when families were still mourning soldiers dead in battle.
Carter preached anti-anti-communism: As the U.S. military deteriorated for lack of funds and confidence, and Cuban troops with Soviet advisors moved into Angola and Ethiopia, Carter's secretary of State announced that "to oppose Soviet or Cuban involvement in Africa would be futile." This was foreign policy as the left liked it.....***
Only in the United States do they have such freedom of speech.
"There is no way Leaky or any of the socialist congress people would move to a Cuba,etc. Why should they....when they can spew their vile hatred for this country and still have a leadership position.
Only in the United States do they have such freedom of speech."
Yes, only in America can these hate America lefties smear our country 24/7/365 with no fear and be heroes to about 50% of the population. Then, they are elected and re elected to spew their vile hatred from a nation podium to their Hate America Voting Cult followers.
This statement really burns me.
Leahy is such a POS.
Hopefully some CIA agents who might have been outed due to this POS will bring criminal civil charges against him.
How do our military feel when they read such anti-Iraq war,just another Vietnam war ,bla,bla,bla by a US Senator?
What would this POS do if all military was to lay down arms and tell the Leathy's of this country, KMA and see how long your freedom of speech lasts without us?
You can bet the socialist rats would be the first to have the military shot on sight.
Leahy and his band of Hate America $inators and Congre$$its would disband our military if they had the opportunity. Then they would have war crimes trials for any good soldier, marine, sailor, airman or coastie.
There are a number of major tactical and political differences too. A large percentage of the troops in Vietnam were draftees while the Iraq War is fought entirely with volunteers. This makes a huge difference politically and makes the Iraq War much easier to sustain politically. Tactically Iraq is less difficult on the whole than Vietnam because we're not fighting an organized, trained army and the desert terrain gives our troops a huge advantage in any kind of conventional warfare.
The insurgents have been largely limited to fighting us with roadside bombs and suicide car bombers. Those are tough tactics to deal with but it's not nearly as tough as fighting the North Vietnamese army in areas with tropical forests and generally heavy vegetation. If we can develop some better ways to detect roadside bombs, then we will have the insurgents in a checkmate tactically. It can't happen a minute too soon.
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