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Editorial: Next Come the Killing Fields(After the Peace Marches)
Washington DC Examiner Newspaper ^ | Jan 29, 2007 | staff

Posted on 01/29/2007 7:15:16 AM PST by kellynla

WASHINGTON - Many participants in Saturday’s “peace” demonstration on the Mall — including mainstream media journalists covering it — noted the parallels with the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era. Thousands demanded American withdrawal from a nation under siege by totalitarians bent on enslaving millions. Hollywood celebrities and Democrat politicians stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the speaker’s platform. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was even a weekend presence, via television from Switzerland, again telling the world how terrible is his country. All that was needed to complete this reconstruction in time was new photos of Jane Fonda consorting with insurgents killing Americans in Iraq in 2007, as she did with the North Vietnamese killing Americans in 1972.

There is, however, one fundamental difference between 1972 and 2007. We know today what comes after the marchers have boarded their buses and headed home, the speeches have ended and the politicians have voted their resolutions. Once the enemy celebrates their victory, blood begins flowing across the killing fields. In Vietnam, millions of South Vietnamese were murdered within weeks of the North’s April 1975 triumph, millions more spent years in brutal “re-education camps” and yet more millions became boat people fleeing the slaughter. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge created a Hell on earth that killed millions more innocents. Eventually, millions of Afghanis died because the Soviets were emboldened by America’s defeat in Vietnam to send the Red Army streaming into Afghanistan.

If the “peace” movement succeeds in defeating America again, the blood will again flow across the killing fields, but this time it will create even more unimaginable horror and it will not all be in distant lands far removed from our comfortable neighborhoods here at home. The slaughter of Shia and Sunni in the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq will only be the beginning of the mass killing that will follow American defeat. With the Americans gone, al-Qaida will have a secure breeding ground from which to launch countless terrorists attacks against the U.S. and its allies around the world and here in America. Turkey will send troops into Northern Iraq and kill or otherwise eliminate all possibility of an independent Kurdistan. Jihadist radicals in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world will foment massacres, bombings and assassinations aimed at overthrowing remaining moderate regimes.

Worse yet, Iran will be emboldened to advance its timetable for becoming the dominant power in the Middle East and millions of Jews in Israel will be incinerated, along with hundreds of thousands of neighboring Palestinians, when the world sees the bright flash of Ahmadinejab’s nuclear program consumated in a second Holocaust.

It is difficult to say what America winning in Iraq will look like other than that a stable democratic regime will be in place and al-Qaida will be denied a new sanctuary. There is no such difficulty, however, in saying what America losing in Iraq will look like — a bloodbath of incalculable horror. Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iraq; killingfields; war; wot
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1 posted on 01/29/2007 7:15:18 AM PST by kellynla
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To: kellynla

"Thousands demanded American withdrawal from a nation under siege by totalitarians bent on enslaving millions."

Exactly!


2 posted on 01/29/2007 7:16:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

This article is right on the money!


3 posted on 01/29/2007 7:19:38 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: kellynla
Will they be able to carry the bloodbath on their consciences [which assumes they have one]? Absolutely! They never broke stride after 'Nam, never looked back. They ostracized the few leftists who brought up what happened in Cambodia and wanted to do different ads and petitions [Joan Baez].

Need more proof? The crap that's gone on for the last three years, culminating with this last piece of deja vu should be proof enough. It amazes me that they hold their heads up. Tough to do without a spine.
4 posted on 01/29/2007 7:25:16 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

They are so filled with rage they like it when totalitarians butcher thousands or millions. They secretly wish they could do the same. They picture themselves the executioners, never the executed.


5 posted on 01/29/2007 7:27:12 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Find later


6 posted on 01/29/2007 7:28:10 AM PST by listenhillary (You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?

The problem with this last statement is the assumption that Liberals have a conscience. They do not!


7 posted on 01/29/2007 7:28:12 AM PST by nj patriot (Gore is beyond help.... Snakes in the head.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
They are so filled with rage they like it when totalitarians butcher thousands or millions. They secretly wish they could do the same. They picture themselves the executioners, never the executed.

That's why we must ever be vigilant about keeping our guns.

8 posted on 01/29/2007 7:30:26 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: kristinn; Angelwood
Thank-you again!

We know why you were there.

9 posted on 01/29/2007 7:33:31 AM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President....2008!)
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To: nj patriot

"Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?"


They'll just blame it all on Bush.


10 posted on 01/29/2007 7:34:12 AM PST by JZelle
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To: kellynla

Wow! I never knew the Examiner had such cajones.


11 posted on 01/29/2007 7:36:00 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: kellynla
Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?

Yes, they are. Hate and rage mixed with ignorance and denial; these libs want American defeat. We withdrawal now, the terrorists will come here and kill us in many more 9/11s. These lib kooks must be defeated in 2008. Victory or death--that is the real choice for America.

12 posted on 01/29/2007 7:36:27 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: kellynla
Lest we forget:


13 posted on 01/29/2007 7:42:00 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: kellynla
Are the demonstrators and their allies in Congress and the media prepared to carry that burden on their consciences?

Sure they are. As long as America loses, they don't give a damn how many die. They didn't care about Southeast Asia 30 years ago, and they don't care about the Mideast today.

14 posted on 01/29/2007 7:43:25 AM PST by Ditto
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To: kellynla

Those bozos tout their opposition to the Vietnam War as a badge of honor. Funny how they never mention the 2 million murdered in Cambodia and the boat people desperate to escape the new worker's paradise in Vietnam.


15 posted on 01/29/2007 7:45:11 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: facedown

This is the legacy of the hippies.


16 posted on 01/29/2007 7:46:38 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: Rummyfan
Actually, Kerry has refused to acknowledge there is a connection between the two. Just as he has refused to acknowledge that which is in the memoirs of the N.Vietnamese general who confirmed that the antiwar protesters kept his own troops moral up and ultimately contributed to their victory.
17 posted on 01/29/2007 8:01:24 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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To: kellynla

Excellent column. Doesn't Bill Sammon work for the Examiner these days? This almost seems like something he'd write.


18 posted on 01/29/2007 8:09:16 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: sauropod

review


19 posted on 01/29/2007 8:10:37 AM PST by sauropod ( "The View:" A Tupperware party in the 10th circle of Hell.)
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To: kellynla
"Eventually, millions of Afghanis died because the Soviets were emboldened by America’s defeat in Vietnam to send the Red Army streaming into Afghanistan."

And here is the root cause of the ME turmoil we have today. It all goes back to Vietnam, which ultimately enabled what we're seeing today. If Russia hadn't moved into Afghanistan, the Taliban might not have ever been.

20 posted on 01/29/2007 8:12:46 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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