Posted on 02/06/2007 3:38:24 PM PST by neverdem
Anti-war sentiment is moving dangerously close to a place America must never go — putting our anger on the soldiers that have been fighting the four-year Iraq war.
Some of this takes the form of minimizing what happened the last time American GIs returned from an unpopular war — Vietnam. Liberal commentators, such as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, are diminishing the hostile treatment Vietnam veterans garnered when they returned from Vietnam.
On the air on Thursday, Mr. Olbermann disparaged the old report of Vietnam veterans being spit upon when they came home: "And, oh, by the way, there is not one confirmed case, not one, of Americans spitting on veterans returning from Vietnam."
Washington Post blogger William Arkin, meanwhile, went so far as to lay a condition for America's "support" of veterans. "These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect," Mr. Arkin wrote. "Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order."
Let's state the obvious. First, Mr. Arkin's words are slanderous. To pluralize Abu Ghraib and Haditha and "every rape and murder" is unconscionable. True, there have been some misdeeds, acts as in Vietnam, where there was a William Calley, who was convicted in the murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians at the My Lai massacre. But in Vietnam there also was helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who stopped Calley from killing even more innocents. The bulk of the American soldiers cannot be held responsible for the isolated wrong.
And, as for Mr. Olbermann, the point is...
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
It's a sight to behold, then quickly forgotten.
It's a sight to behold, then quickly forgotten.
Sorry for the double post....
If the RATs think they're going to sweep their treasonous past under the rug, they're sadly mistaken.
More Arkin
Smug
That's the word that comes to mind when I think of Olbermann. Well, its the first word that comes to mind, followed by many others, none of which are pleasant.
My husband is a Vietnam Vet...he said he personally wasn't spat upon...but, he knows of fellow vets that were.
Thanks for that news clip.
Happened to me also--Oakland airport 1967--
Thanks for the link.
war-stories.com,,,to get an idea..
Forget these people for now,,they're the first to ask you for help when push comes to shove...
Olbermann doesn't have the first clue. He just says things off the top of his head. Must be why the DU loves him.
Within days multiple firsthand accounts disproved the claim. But it seems the original story developed a life of its own, as so many erroneous stories do, and has found a comfy home in the peabrain of Keith Olbermann.
He's a vet accost denier.
**Happened to me at the Oakland Airport in 1969**
Happened to me in a bar in La Jolla.
It happened a lot.
Can one obtain an arrest report of a case that never went to court? My son was spit on in 2003 but the perp was murdered before he went to court.
"And, oh, by the way, there is not one confirmed case, not one, of Americans spitting on veterans returning from Vietnam."
Well someone tell Missy Olbermann that I AM A MARINE CORPS COMBAT VIET NAM VETERAN WHO WAS SPAT UPON WHILE STANDING AT THE CORNER OF KATELLA & ST. COLLEGE IN ANAHEIM, CA DOWN THE STREET FROM DISNEYLAND IN 1968.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
William Arken better hope that he never crosses my path uttering those words.
I'll kick his keester. And I'm a girl!
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