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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

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.


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To: kellynla; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; ...
My fellow Viet Nam war veterans might be interested in this.

I feel certain you're right.

81 posted on 01/03/2007 7:02:14 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: freema
We won the war. We bombed and mined them into going to Paris.
The democratic controlled congress forced the POTUS's hand in not continueing sufficient money and military aid to the south. It is that simple.
The commies went back on their agreements. Wally Crankcase abused the word quagmire. The rest is history.
Now new generations of dishonorable demorats and main stream media use the same word with much effect.
The rest is history.
82 posted on 01/03/2007 7:25:55 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Marine_Uncle

Over my cold dead body : )


83 posted on 01/03/2007 7:28:56 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: jonrick46

Yeah. I guess I should have just said: "Yalta", that would have covered a lot.


84 posted on 01/03/2007 7:42:02 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: PzLdr
I think you are right on the money. I think he didn't act forcefully enough. Some things are the right thing to do, and I would rather lose in 76 than be the guy that let South Vietnam fall to a raggedy force of North Vietnamese after 50,000 Americans lost their lives keeping it out of Commie hands. I remember reading a Time Magazine quote of a South Vietnam citizen, something like "When are the US planes coming?". Time smugly reported that they would not come. I felt humiliated for our country and sorry for that man.

Ford was a good man, and on the day he was buried, I will leave it at that. Don't forget that primary responsibility lay with the dem congress. Ford was just a man not up to the task of taking them on.

85 posted on 01/03/2007 7:47:54 PM PST by Defiant (Obama as President would make us an Obama Nation.)
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To: Marine_Uncle; freema
We won the war.

Yes we did, Uncle.

But then the Democrats showed up, demanding our defeat.

And they made it happen, and our nation allowed them to.

God help us, if we let them do it again.

NOT THIS TIME, DAMNIT!!!

86 posted on 01/03/2007 8:00:09 PM PST by smoothsailing (INVESTIGATE MURTHA (http://warchronicle.com/MurthaFile/Investigate%20Murtha.htm)
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To: smoothsailing; Marine_Uncle

A HUGE irony that Ford is buried as a Democratic Congress comes aboard.

And with that, I'm off to bed. Sleep tight, don't let the lefties bite.


87 posted on 01/03/2007 8:06:50 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: freema
G'Night Darlin'!


88 posted on 01/03/2007 8:12:00 PM PST by smoothsailing (INVESTIGATE MURTHA (http://warchronicle.com/MurthaFile/Investigate%20Murtha.htm)
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To: Lancey Howard

I nominate Ann Coulter for President! She actually has the b*lls to say what needs to be said. She would certainly give the Hildabeast a run for her money!!!!!!


89 posted on 01/03/2007 8:13:27 PM PST by jamaly (I evacuate early and often!)
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To: harrowup
Now, there's a stretch, even from Miz Kolter.

Not really. They certainly exagerated the "burglarly" to the extreme. So what if the Republicans broke into the Democratic headquarters. The Democrats did the same thing to the Republicans in the 60s, twice IIRC. It really shouldn't have been a big deal, it happened before and probably still happens to this day. Rudy Guilliani's leak this weak was probably caused by a break-in or dirty trick from the Democrats or possibly a Republican trying to eliminate him early in the race.

90 posted on 01/03/2007 8:18:22 PM PST by jamaly (I evacuate early and often!)
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To: Candor7
Anne's sense of history is actually so accurate , I wish we had a university where the real history of the Vietnam era could be taught according to Professor Coulter.

That probably won't happen; but, maybe Ann could write another one of her best sellers on the history of the Vietnam War.

91 posted on 01/03/2007 8:21:51 PM PST by jamaly (I evacuate early and often!)
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To: kellynla
Ann Coulter has more balls than all of Congressional and Senate Republicans put together.
92 posted on 01/03/2007 8:22:50 PM PST by Ignatz ("I think we should tax all foreigners living abroad.")
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To: kellynla
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.

It's true - they were rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat...

93 posted on 01/03/2007 8:25:16 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: kellynla
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..

Daaaaamn right!

94 posted on 01/03/2007 8:32:32 PM PST by Screamname (My name is Screamname and I approve this message.)
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To: Rummyfan

good memory.Nixon was marked in the late 50's as dangerous


95 posted on 01/03/2007 8:36:09 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: kellynla
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96 posted on 01/03/2007 8:42:35 PM PST by RonDog
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To: The Westerner

I respect your opinion to be sure but you are as wrong as antifreeze in the oil.


97 posted on 01/03/2007 8:45:52 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: kellynla

Maybe McGovern should have send in Lt. John F'ing Kerry to defeat Pol Pot since we all know he was secretly boating about in Cambodia during the Holidays.


98 posted on 01/03/2007 8:47:05 PM PST by Fledermaus (Pull out your burkas...the U.S. doesn't have the backbone to fight for itself any longer.)
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To: Candor7

Bush won't do anything. He is worse than a lame duck. He has bungled this battle in Iraq and does nothing while Iran and Syria kill our soldiers whose hands are tied.

Now it looks like he's going to increase targets, oops, I mean troops. To do what? Not engage the enemy?

Are we fighting a war on terror or are we playing politics?

Close the damn borders, defeat our enemies by all means necessary and tell the Dims and the Euro-weenies to BITE US!


99 posted on 01/03/2007 8:51:38 PM PST by Fledermaus (Pull out your burkas...the U.S. doesn't have the backbone to fight for itself any longer.)
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To: The Westerner

Ford was an elitist GOP member ala Rockefeller, his VP. He listened to Alan Greenspan, his economic advisor, and we got stagflation.

He listened to Kissinger and got defeat.

He now gets praise for pardoning Nixon which is STILL a mistake setting a precedent that all of us are not equal and, yes, some of the elite are above the law. And we now wonder why judges legislate from the bench.

I have no respect for Gerald Ford.


100 posted on 01/03/2007 8:55:09 PM PST by Fledermaus (Pull out your burkas...the U.S. doesn't have the backbone to fight for itself any longer.)
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