And my favorite:
Posted on 01/03/2007 3:25:59 PM PST by kellynla
Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff. Also, Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped Ford's funeral.
The passing of Gerald Ford should remind Americans that Democrats are always lying in wait, ready to force a humiliating defeat on America.
More troops, fewer troops, different troops, "redeployment" — all the Democrats' peculiar little talking points are just a way of sounding busy. Who are they kidding? Democrats want to cut and run as fast as possible from Iraq, betraying the Iraqis who supported us and rewarding our enemies — exactly as they did to the South Vietnamese under Ford.
Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat, a tradition they have brought back for the Iraq war.
They insisted on calling the Soviet-backed Vietcong "the National Liberation Front of Vietnam," just as they call Islamic fascists killing Americans in Iraq "insurgents." Ho Chi Minh was hailed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat," just as Michael Moore compares the Islamic fascists in Iraq to the Minute Men.
During the Vietnam War, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger told his father that if an American soldier ran into a North Vietnamese soldier, he would prefer for the American to get shot. "It's the other guy's country," he explained.
Now, as publisher of the Times, Pinch does all he can to help the enemy currently shooting at American soldiers.
After a half-dozen years of Democrat presidents creating a looming disaster in Vietnam — with Kennedy ordering the assassination of our own ally in the middle of the war and Johnson ham-handedly choosing bombing targets from the Oval Office — in 1969, Nixon became president and the world was safe again.
Nixon began a phased withdrawal of American ground troops, while protecting the South Vietnamese by increasing the bombings of the North, mining North Vietnamese harbors and attacking North Vietnamese military supplies in Cambodia — all actions hysterically denounced by American liberals, eager for the communists to defeat America.
Despite the massive anti-war protests staged by the Worst Generation, their takeovers of university buildings and their bombings of federal property to protest the bombing of North Vietnamese property, Nixon's Vietnam policy was apparently popular with normal Americans. In 1972, he won re-election against "peace" candidate George McGovern in a 49-state landslide.
In January 1973, the United States signed the Paris Peace accords, which would have ended the war with honor. In order to achieve a ceasefire, Nixon jammed lousy terms down South Vietnam's throat, such as allowing Vietcong troops to remain in the South. But in return, we promised South Vietnam that we would resume bombing missions and provide military aid if the North attacked.
It would have worked, but the Democrats were desperate for America to lose. They invented "Watergate," the corpus delicti of which wouldn't have merited three column-inches during the Clinton years, and hounded Nixon out of office. (How's Sandy Berger weathering that tough wrist-slap?)
Three months after Nixon was gone, we got the Watergate Congress and with it, the new Democratic Party. In lieu of the old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.
Just one month after the Watergate Congress was elected, North Vietnam attacked the South.
Even milquetoast, pro-abortion, detente-loving Gerald R. Ford knew America had to defend South Vietnam or America's word would be worth nothing. As Ford said, "American unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives could seriously affect our credibility throughout the world as an ally." He pleaded repeatedly with the Democratic Congress simply to authorize aid to South Vietnam — no troops, just money.
But the Democrats turned their backs on South Vietnam, betrayed an ally and trashed America's word. Within a month of Ford's last appeal to Congress to help South Vietnam, Saigon fell.
The entire world watched as American personnel desperately scrambled into helicopters from embassy rooftops in Saigon while beating back our own allies, to whom we could offer no means of escape. It was the most demeaning image of America ever witnessed, until Britney Spears came along.
Southeast Asia was promptly consumed in a maelstrom of violence that seems to occur whenever these "Jeffersonian Democrats" come to power. Communist totalitarians swept through Laos, Cambodia and all of Vietnam. They staged gruesome massacres so vast that none other than Sen. George McGovern called for military intervention to stop a "clear case of genocide" in Cambodia.
Five years after that, Islamic lunatics in Iran felt no compunction about storming the embassy of what was once the greatest superpower on Earth and taking American citizens hostage for 14 months. To this day, al-Qaida boosts the flagging morale of its jihadists by reminding them of America's humiliating retreat from Vietnam.
In addition to being wrong about Ford's pardon of Nixon, liberals were wrong about a few other things from that era. Democrats haven't admitted error in rejecting Ford's pleas on behalf of South Vietnam because there are still dangerous foreigners trying to kill Americans. Nixon is safely interred in the ground, but the enemies of America continue to need the Democrats' help.
Oh me too.
I'm not particularly a Nixon fan, but let's face it, Watergate was child's play compared to the shenanigans other Presidents did. The Dems were just looking for anything to nail Nixon on.
In Ann's first book, HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, she offers a very detailed compare-and-contrast between the crimes of the Nixon Admin and the throrough-going corruption of the Clintons. It's devastating what BillHilly and Company got away with! They should have been thrown in irons!!!!
And my favorite:
Someone needs to point out that President Gerald R. Ford was more of a man than Ann Coulter ever will be! This hermaphrodite doesn't know a what a real man is if this is how she/he characterizes a strong, but modest man.
Thanks for your service, but I disagree with your analysis on Ford.
He was in no position to do much of anything. The American public would not have gone along with him. The country had been poisoned by liberals, and their planned weakening of the Executive branch was at its apogee.
I agree with your sentiments on how we stabbed the South Vietnamese in the back, but I really do not think Ford could have done anything about it. Congress was in control there.
I had an interesting encounter a few months ago. Over the years, I have interacted every so often with a Vietnamese guy who is an equipment repairman. I admit, I never liked him much. He is very difficult to understand, can be really brusque and was just generally, in my opinion, a pain in the ass.
I had to spend about half a day working a problem with him, and since there was a lot of dead time in the process, we began chatting on a personal level to kill time, something we had never done before.
Turned out, he was a captain of a ship in the South Vietnamese Navy. As I got him to open up, he told me about his experiences being "re-educated". His eyes got a far off look, and after a distracted, long pause, he said in a very faint voice "Sometimes I cannot believe what I went through. It seems like it was all a dream."
He escaped after (I think he said) five years, made his way to the coast and stole a small open boat. He spent 10 days on the open ocean in the South China Sea. He eventually made it to another country, and then to the USA.
I have ALWAYS been ashamed of what we did to our allies. But seeing it plainly visible on this guy's face was painful to me. I told him I hated what the USA had done to him, and people like him.
Now, when I see him, he gives me a big, wide grin, a wave and a greeting. The contrast in this man, just from ME knowing what he did is astounding. This from a guy who never, ever betrayed even a smidgen of emotion before.
In a way, I have a feeling I helped him somehow.
And I am glad that our country has seen fit to give you, and people like you the respect and recognition you greatly deserve for serving in that conflict.
John Fking Kerry not withstanding!
Yours was a post worth reading. Thank you, and tell that man from me that I'm glad he's an American.
I was sitting in an all night poker game with a young guy named J*** G****, a writer, when he got a phone call from the McGovern people, I think, to come and "cover" the story of Watergate. None of us knew what it was at the time, but, looking back....
Ann Coulter is my next wife--that is if Laura Bush rejects me.
E.g., Filegate. Hundreds of counts of the felony that put Chuck Colson in the slammer for a year.
"Now, there's a stretch, even from Miz Kolter."
I think the point is, by today's standards, Watergate is no more a crime then being impeached and disbarred for lying to the nation about an affair with an intern and trying to cover it up by bombing empty tents after telegraphing your intentions to the enemy.
And then the NY Times calls you a courageous leader.
Now here is proof that Evolution is true: Monkey intellect.
...This hermaphrodite doesn't know a what a real man ...
Oh, a real intellectual, we don't have many of those here! Can you please give us more of your wisdom, please please!
I had to apologize to an Iraqi shiite once. I am glad you were able to reach out to him.
My point about Ford is that he didn't TRY. Do I think he could have gotten something done? Yeah, I do. The American people woukld have coughed up aid - it was only money, not U.S troops. But he didn't. My opinion? Ford had been an insider for so long, he couldn't work any other way.
And I still think of the ARVNs I was training, and wondering what happened to them.
Ping ....... ovuh.
Yeah. We stabbed them pretty good too, just from incompetence and miscommunciation.
My international regrets as an American:
1) Treatment of the Nationalist Chinese after WWII
I know they were corrupt as the day is long, but...they didn't kill something like 35 million of their own people
2) Bay of Pigs
Spineless stupidity
3) South Vietnam
Nuff said
4) Shah of Iran
The height of the idiocy, pettiness and stupid misguided righteousness of Jimmy Carter.
5) Shiites in southern Iraq after GW1
That was just ineptness on our part, and lack of thinking things through. I certainly don't think we wanted that to happen to them.
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