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.
I feel certain you're right.
Over my cold dead body : )
Yeah. I guess I should have just said: "Yalta", that would have covered a lot.
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.
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!!!
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.
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!!!!!!
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.
That probably won't happen; but, maybe Ann could write another one of her best sellers on the history of the Vietnam War.
It's true - they were rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat...
Daaaaamn right!
good memory.Nixon was marked in the late 50's as dangerous
I respect your opinion to be sure but you are as wrong as antifreeze in the oil.
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.
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!
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.
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