How to Lose a War (A MUST-READ! Really! An article to disseminate as widly as possible!)

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | January 28, 2007 | Bradley R. Gitz

[kitkat]

BUMP

[Clintonfatigued]

Fortunately, the House's Class of 1974 is mostly gone, but their legacy still influences the current crop of Congressional Democrats.

[Coachm]

So Vietnam might have had a different ending if we didn't have Watergate?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think there's some kind of strange inference here that the Democrats and the RINOs who support them somehow don't actually want to lose the war in Iraq and are just "misguided." Don't bet on it. They want us to lose, and this article gives them a blueprint for it.

[Jeff Chandler]

So Vietnam might have had a different ending if we didn't have Watergate?

Yes.

[Inkie]

Unfortunately, our populace is very poorly educated, so even if they notice what Congress is doing (like giving Congressional voting rights to representatives of non-states like Guam), they are too ignorant to know it is unconstitional and dangerous.

[SandRat]

The Cowardly Surrender Monkeys of the '60s return.

[Jeff Chandler]

They want us to lose

Yes they do. The Center-Left believes that the United States is evil and deserves to get its comeuppance.

[Sola Veritas]

Indeed, many have drawn parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, but they didn't learn the proper lesson from Vietnam.

In Vietnam we were NEVER beaten in the field. The war was lost at home and in the press.

After the loss of many American and Vietnamese lives, we deserted the South Vietnam government and set them up for downfall. That is the real tragedy of that war, that Vietnam fell to communists, because of American betrayal.

General Westermorland wrote a book called, "A Soldier Reports." It is a good read.

[freekitty]

That's what our Congress is trying to do now. How can they do this to America? Repeat their mistakes and put America, our troops in danger. Do these people love their country? No. It's all about winning politically. This time we will not give in. They can do their little speeches, postures, whatever, true Americans will not give in.

[freekitty]

The tragedy is they do not want Iraqi's to be free. Freedom and the ability to think and solve your problems yourself is not what they want.

[Eagles6]

Too many don't know the truth. Rather than "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it", we have the democrats who know history and vow to repeat it.

[Felis_irritable]

I've just started reading Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War 1954-1965, by Mark Moyar. Certainly not the first, but the most recent revisionist history of the Vietnam war. BTW, *he* calls himself a revisionist... It's been a sad read so far. It's also a well documented book. Things could have gone differently. I wonder when we'll start getting the same kind of books about Iraq and the GWOT?

[Basheva]

This is not about doing the right thing, or winning.

This is about a power grab. It's about a democrat congress imposing its will on the foreign policy which has always been the purview of the president. This is about the congress going abroad and trying to conduct foreign policy by undermining the president.

This is about the democrat congress undermining the Commander in Chief provision of the Constitution when the president is a republican - they don't do it when the president is a democrat - like Clinton in Kosovo or bombing in Yogoslavia.

Democrats never undermine a democrat president - republicans do undermine a republican president.

But the overriding intent is to cripple America's ability to wage war in defense of itself, its allies and interests.

They cripple the American spirit - and that's how we lose - not by losing on the battlefield. Doing it this way is even deadlier.

If you lose a battle you can hope to come back another day. But if the spirit is crippled - there is no coming back.

This is a direct descendant of what happened in Vietnam - the American spirit was crippled. For a couple of decades after that American soldiers were afraid to wear their uniforms. We owe this to the decadent American left and its running dogs the media, academia and Hollywood. What a team.

What happened to Jane Fonda's apology?

Obviously she didn't mean it.

[jazusamo]

I'm praying the Rats don't enable history to repeat itself. They looney left are spinless cowards.

[radar101]

A CLASSIC!

Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981. Church was a member of the Idaho Democratic Party.

What happened when Democrats in Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War?

[Basheva]

<<<<>>> The people of the South were left to the tender mercies of the North. Pol Pot reigned supreme in Cambodia - where millions died.

[Swede Girl]

Yes. That is why you hear the liberal press still gloating about their success with creating the Watergate scandal. The libs were in their glory. It got rid of Nixon, allowed the advancement of their beloved communism in Southeast Asia, and, among other things, it eventually brought in the likes of their golden boy, Jimmy Carter who, in actuality, was - and is - a disaster for this country, not to mention Iran.

You might say it had a rippling effect, and not for the betterment of mankind. Don't forget that millions were slaughtered in SE Asia after the democrat congress pulled us out. And just look at what we are dealing with in Iran today because of Carter.

[Calpernia]

I think so.