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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A VAST SLEEPER CELL(Ann Coulter)
anncoulter.com ^ | January 3, 2007 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 01/03/2007 3:25:59 PM PST by kellynla

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To: Zack Nguyen

It was a proxy war between the Soviets and the ChiComs, Pol Pot was supported by Beijing and the Vietnamese Communists were supported by Moscow. Also remember that China and Vietnam had a brief war in 1979 around that same time.


141 posted on 01/04/2007 7:36:24 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Zack Nguyen

Yes. Exactly. The USA is not perfect, it has made mistakes, some through stupidity, some through ignorance, some through malice, and some through bureaucracy.

But this country has done more good for the world than any other nation in history. We can always do better if we keep in mind and avoid the things we have done that were worse.


142 posted on 01/04/2007 7:36:47 PM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: Mr. Peabody

Grrr. Yes. And it is UTTERLY infuriating!

One of the small things that completely pisses me off is hearing people like Tom Brokaw and his ilk talk about how Ford was sometimes ridiculed for being clumsy...IT WAS HIM AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO WERE DOING IT!!!!!!!

It is similar to when Germany was occupied after WWII, you could not find a Nazi anywhere. They were just nowhere to be found. Extinct.

Same with the Appeasers before WWII. Somehow, it was always someone else.


143 posted on 01/04/2007 7:40:53 PM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: workerbee
In lieu of the old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.

Ouch. Niiiice.
144 posted on 01/04/2007 7:41:24 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Snickersnee
You are correct about the Soviets moving into North Korea after the War. They were regarded as our allies against Japan as well as Nazi Germany. Because of this unholy alliance, President Roosevelt under the direction of incompetent George Marshell, agreed with Stalin to establish an international trusteeship for Korea at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. This is how Joseph McCarthy accurately described George Marchall's incompetence before the U.S. Senate, June 14th, 1951:

"It was Marshall who sent Deane to Moscow to collaborate with Harriman in drafting the terms of the wholly unnecessary bribe paid to Stalin at Yalta. It was Marshall, with Hiss at his elbow and doing the physical drafting of agreements at Yalta, who ignored the contrary advice of his senior, Admiral Leahy, and of MacArtbur and Nimitz in regard to the folly of a major land invasion of Japan; who submitted intelligence reports which suppressed more truthful estimates in order to support his argument, and who finally induced Roosevelt to bring Russia into the Japanese war with a bribe that reinstated Russia in its pre-1904 imperialistic position in Manchuria-an act which, in effect, signed the death warrant of the Republic of China."

"It was Marshall, with Acheson and Vincent eagerly assisting, who created the China policy which, destroying China, robbed us of a great and friendly ally, a buffer against the Soviet imperialism with which we are now at war."

This was a huge blunder in our foreign policy. Unfortunately, no one at that time knew the degree of threat the Soviet communists would have on the world scene. With Yalta it was planned that the Soviets could declare war on Japan as soon as the Germans were defeated. With the defeat of the Germans, the Soviets declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945 and launched a massive military invasion to drive the Japanese out of Korea and Manchuria. Even though Yalta had not set the amount of Soviet control for Korea it was assumed that unless events changed, the Soviets would have all of Korea. Instead, the United States under President Truman proposed that the Soviets could occupy all of Korea above the 38th parallel while a provisional government was established in Seoul. Stalin agreed on the provision. Then in December of 1945, allied ministers met in Moscow and decided that a five year trusteeship would be established to help put together a Korean provisional government towards full independence. The goal for the trusteeship was to bring Korea towards organizing a single unified government with a new constitution for the entire peninsula. This trusteeship was immediately opposed by the Syngman Rhee who was also chosen by the United States as one to head the Korea provisional govenment. Rhee began his nationalist campaign to become Korea's first elected president. He rallied popular support with his strong anti-communist campaign. He won the presidency by a vote of the first Korean parliament in 1948. Synman Rhee's anti-communist politics wanted the Soviets out of Korea. You can imagine how the Soviets might have reacted when their game plan was hit with a huge political blow with Rhee's election. The Soviets wanted their communist party activists to have political representation in the democratic process in all of Korea. Rhee would have no compromise. The Soviets were to get out. Rhee correctly interpreted this as an effort by the Soviet communists to eventually control all of Korea. Unfortunately, Rhee proved to be a corrupt leader who soon ruled with dictatorial powers sending goon squads out to kill anyone who opposed him. It was his inept leadership and, I suspect, Soviet agents at work in the Truman Administration that mishandled the Korean unification process. Indeed, as Nixon called it, it was the "Dean Acheson College for Cowardly Containment of Communism." It was this failure that precipitated the Korean War and thwarted the desire for unification that these people have for so long wanted.

145 posted on 01/04/2007 10:45:25 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: harrowup
Are you a rat?

I am a Democrat who believes in aggressive defense and loyalty.

A simple "yes, I am a rat" would suffice here.

146 posted on 01/08/2007 9:43:00 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: kellynla
[ THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A VAST SLEEPER CELL ]

LoL....

147 posted on 01/12/2007 1:03:41 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: kellynla
In January 1973, the United States signed the Paris Peace accords, which would have ended the war with honor.
Just one month after the Watergate Congress was elected, North Vietnam attacked the South.
Ford pleaded repeatedly with the Democratic Congress simply to authorize aid to South Vietnam — no troops, just money.
Within a month of Ford's last appeal to Congress to help South Vietnam, Saigon fell.


It sounds like we won the war in Vietnam. One year later, we gave South Vietnam away.

148 posted on 02/10/2007 12:22:33 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: The Westerner
Funny you say that as I also always considered Ford a milque toast guy. He and Bush senior both were gutless as far as I'm concerned. Although I do think that Ford's pardon of Nixon was a good thing.
149 posted on 02/10/2007 12:41:31 PM PST by fish hawk (Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.)
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To: harrowup
They invented "Watergate,"...

Now, there's a stretch, even from Miz Kolter.

Watergate was probably on a par with LBJ’s bugging the Goldwater campaign, or with Clinton listening in when Jesse Helms placed calls to the United States from oversees. Watergate was less than the Clinton White House use of FBI files on hundreds Republicans. The connection between Nixon and Watergate is no stronger than the connection between Clinton and Sandy Burger’s thefts (and deposits?) from the National Archives. Only one of these stories got the Woodward and Bernstein treatment from the Washington Post.
150 posted on 02/10/2007 12:41:54 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: Screamname
Thank you Screamname. I approve of your message also.
151 posted on 02/10/2007 1:21:09 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: advertising guy; Common Tator
I agree. I was trying to remember a few things about Helen Gahagan Douglas. So I did a little research. Here is a quote from a fellow freeper:

"Nixon had committed the unpardonable sin. He had defeated a communist loving Democrat for the Senate seat from California. Her name was Helen Gahagan Douglass. Nixon said she was pink (a term for communist sympathizer) down to her panties. Then once elected he helped bring Alger Hiss to justice. The left loved Hiss. They refused to believe he was a Russian spy when Boris Yeltsin released KGB files proving he was."

See post 14 by Common Tater:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417394/posts
152 posted on 02/10/2007 1:36:19 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: 7thson
the press already wounded the Presidency with the exposure of Agnew's dealing's while Governor of Maryland.

I recall a “principle” invented by Democrats. A man is “elevated” when he achieves national office. In other words, failings at the state and local level should be ignored. I think that principle was applied to Truman. But that’s for Democrats, not Republicans. It was never applied to Agnew. The principle could have been used for Clinton also, but maybe the hypocrisy might have been too obvious.

I liked listening to Agnew:
nattering nabobs of negativism
pusillanimous pussyfoots
hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history
effete corps of impudent snobs
"radiclib," a blend of "radical liberal”
153 posted on 02/10/2007 1:58:44 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: jonrick46
I read once in Human Events that someone (Acheson?) marked drew lines on a map to indicate the American sphere of influence in Asia. South Korea was excluded. The North Korean leader took the map to Stalin and convinced him that the US would not intervene if North Korea attacked the south. I would be curious to hear your opinion on this.
154 posted on 02/10/2007 2:34:46 PM PST by ChessExpert (Reagan defeated the Soviet Union despite the Democratic party. We could use another miracle.)
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To: JerseyJohn61
O'Brien's "Head" secretary was running a liaison service with a brothel across the street from the Watergate hotel, where the Dem's had there Nat'l HQ.

G.Gordon Liddy relates the story well

Liddy says that John Dean's wife was part of the group. John Dean sued him over it, and later withdrew the suit and paid Liddy's attorney fees, plus some other settlement.

155 posted on 02/10/2007 2:55:00 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: ChessExpert
drew lines on a map to indicate the American sphere of influence in Asia. South Korea was excluded...

You have the jist of the story. It was Harry Truman, and it was in a speach he gave.

156 posted on 02/10/2007 3:08:02 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Dan(9698)
Yeah, I recently heard an interview with a liberal
journalist who revisited the John Dean's wife
scenario. "Pure revisionist history" he called it.
Of course he did not question why the MSM has never,
ever investigated any of these claims from Liddy.

Very much like the Sandy Burglar case. Ignore it and
it might simply go away....JJ61
157 posted on 02/10/2007 9:26:47 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: ChessExpert
I have written about the mishandling of Korea in a earlier post. Here is that post. The information in this history shows clearly how bad foreign policy creates problems far into the future. We should learn from such history when we think about what we should do in Iraq.

You are correct about the Soviets moving into North Korea after the War. They were regarded as our allies against Japan as well as Nazi Germany. Because of this unholy alliance, President Roosevelt under the direction of incompetent George Marshell, agreed with Stalin to establish an international trusteeship for Korea at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. This is how Joseph McCarthy accurately described George Marchall's incompetence before the U.S. Senate, June 14th, 1951:

"It was Marshall who sent Deane to Moscow to collaborate with Harriman in drafting the terms of the wholly unnecessary bribe paid to Stalin at Yalta. It was Marshall, with Hiss at his elbow and doing the physical drafting of agreements at Yalta, who ignored the contrary advice of his senior, Admiral Leahy, and of MacArthur and Nimitz in regard to the folly of a major land invasion of Japan; who submitted intelligence reports which suppressed more truthful estimates in order to support his argument, and who finally induced Roosevelt to bring Russia into the Japanese war with a bribe that reinstated Russia in its pre-1904 imperialistic position in Manchurian act which, in effect, signed the death warrant of the Republic of China."

"It was Marshall, with Acheson and Vincent eagerly assisting, who created the China policy which, destroying China, robbed us of a great and friendly ally, a buffer against the Soviet imperialism with which we are now at war."

This was a huge blunder in our foreign policy. Unfortunately, no one at that time knew the degree of threat the Soviet communists would have on the world scene. With Yalta it was planned that the Soviets could declare war on Japan as soon as the Germans were defeated. With the defeat of the Germans, the Soviets declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945 and launched a massive military invasion to drive the Japanese out of Korea and Manchuria. Even though Yalta had not set the amount of Soviet control for Korea it was assumed that unless events changed, the Soviets would have all of Korea. Instead, the United States under President Truman proposed that the Soviets could occupy all of Korea above the 38th parallel while a provisional government was established in Seoul. Stalin agreed on the provision. Then in December of 1945, allied ministers met in Moscow and decided that a five year trusteeship would be established to help put together a Korean provisional government towards full independence. The goal for the trusteeship was to bring Korea towards organizing a single unified government with a new constitution for the entire peninsula. This trusteeship was immediately opposed by the Syngman Rhee who was also chosen by the United States as one to head the Korea provisional govenment. Rhee began his nationalist campaign to become Korea's first elected president. He rallied popular support with his strong anti-communist campaign. He won the presidency by a vote of the first Korean parliament in 1948. Synman Rhee's anti-communist politics wanted the Soviets out of Korea. You can imagine how the Soviets might have reacted when their game plan was hit with a huge political blow with Rhee's election. The Soviets wanted their communist party activists to have political representation in the democratic process in all of Korea. Rhee would have no compromise. The Soviets were to get out. Rhee correctly interpreted this as an effort by the Soviet communists to eventually control all of Korea. Unfortunately, Rhee proved to be a corrupt leader who soon ruled with dictatorial powers sending goon squads out to kill anyone who opposed him. It was his inept leadership and, I suspect, Soviet agents at work in the Truman Administration that mishandled the Korean unification process. Indeed, as Nixon called it, it was the "Dean Acheson College for Cowardly Containment of Communism." It was this failure that precipitated the Korean War and thwarted the desire for unification that these people have for so long wanted.
158 posted on 02/13/2007 8:06:29 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: kellynla; Peach
I miss more good stuff...thanks for posting this....adding the following:

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The press is the propaganda arm of the American left and they have an agenda...see this:

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

159 posted on 02/13/2007 8:11:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Horowitz is another grand conservative.

Have you read the book?

I just finished Mark Steyn's "America Alone", great read.

I just posted an article revealing that the 18 yr. old murderer in Utah was a Muslim. A fact conveniently unreported by the LSM.


160 posted on 02/13/2007 8:33:25 PM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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