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| 10-20-06
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Posted on 10/20/2006 8:52:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Iraq War: President Bush's acknowledgment that some "could be right" in comparing Iraq to Vietnam cheered the anti-war left. But he didn't mean it the way they think, and he won't give them the results they want.
It's a mantra of the anti-war left that Iraq is like Vietnam in the quagmire sense, a waste of vast amounts of treasure and blood in a futile attempt to impose our will on a population rising up to resist us. It's also part of the mantra that 1968's Tet offensive was an American and South Vietnamese defeat.
In a postwar interview, Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army and who received South Vietnam's surrender in 1975, said it was the anti-war movement, fanned by gloomy media reports, that was "essential to our strategy."
Highly covered visits by Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, et al. "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses." Today we have Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; tetoffensive; troops; wot
To: freema
Ping
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posted on
10/20/2006 8:53:37 PM PDT
by
smoothsailing
(Support The Troops-Support The Mission--Please Visit http://www.irey.com--&--YouDontKnowJack.org)
To: smoothsailing
As Americans we cannot let history repeat itself. Our pull out in Vietnam was a disaster and we can't sit back and let it be repeated because of the likes of the Murtha's, Kerry's and Sheehan's.
A good man had something to say about this recently and I feel the same.
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posted on
10/20/2006 9:19:59 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
To: jazusamo
A VERY GOOD MAN!!!
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posted on
10/20/2006 10:01:40 PM PDT
by
smoothsailing
(Support The Troops-Support The Mission--Please Visit http://www.irey.com--&--YouDontKnowJack.org)
To: smoothsailing
What Bush meant when he conceded Friedman "could be right" in comparing the current escalation in violence to Tet is that the jihadists in Iraq hope to play our media like a fiddle, bombarding us with graphic images of car bombs killing innocent civilians until the last helicopter leaves the roof of our embassy in Baghdad. And our ENEMEDIA is more than happy to assist the jihadists and root against the United States!
Thanks for posting this, smooth!
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posted on
10/20/2006 10:56:23 PM PDT
by
jan in Colorado
(Don't be a "Cut and Run" Republican. INCREASE the Republican majority! VOTE 'R')
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
10/20/2006 11:05:18 PM PDT
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
10/20/2006 11:05:29 PM PDT
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; AlaskaErik; ...
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posted on
10/21/2006 4:59:42 AM PDT
by
freema
(Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: jan in Colorado
Excellent. Let the lefties think that Pubs will just stay home. Come out and vote for victory both domestically and in our foreign policy war against Islamofascism.
To: freema; smoothsailing
These comparisons between the Iraqi SASO and the Vietnam war continue to be voiced by a bunch of dopes at best, and real slick anti-American operators at worst. And the halls of congress are just full of them amoung other entities.
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posted on
10/21/2006 4:19:18 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
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