Posted on 02/20/2007 6:37:18 PM PST by Islander7
----SNIP---- ....For reasons that escape historical justification, even after America’s military withdrawal the Left continued to try to bring down the incipient South Vietnamese democracy. Future White House aide Harold Ickes and others at "Project Pursestrings"—assisted at one point by an ambitious young Bill Clinton—worked to cut off all congressional funding intended to help the South Vietnamese defend themselves. ---SNIP--- Then-Congressman Christopher Dodd typified the hopeless naiveté of his peers when he intoned that "calling the Lon Nol regime an ally is to debase the word.... The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. ---SNIP--- No one has ever mentioned the concentration camps into which a million South Vietnamese soldiers were sent; 56,000 to die, 250,000 to stay for more than six years, and some for as long as 18. No one criticized the forced relocations, the corruption, or the continuing police state. More to the point, with the exception of the well-intentioned but artistically weak Hamburger Hill, one searches in vain for a single major film since that time that has portrayed American soldiers in Vietnam with dignity and in a true context.
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I was just going to ping you...I had to read this twice, to make sure that this was written in 1997...and by WEBB!!
Mag....is this not the most amazing thing to read??
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I STRONGLY URGE ALL FREEPERS TO READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT.
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Thank you so much for posting this.
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"I STRONGLY URGE ALL FREEPERS TO READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT."
And then forward it to the good Senator and ask: "What happened?"
You should send this to Hugh Hewitt, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity....Brit Hume..Major Garrett..Laura Ingraham..and your Congresscritters.
Good idea!
THis is precisely why I sent a PING to "The Great One"
Nice catch.
Sleeping with the enemy; that phrase seems to have evolved over time where its implications are more intimate and pruriently suggestive, from fleas to crabs, so to speak.
He might just be the Manchurian candidate. I see ice in his eyes.
You are so right...he has always made me uncomfortable.
But, remember, Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly loved his SOTU rebuttal...called him interesting and loved his speech, and called him a "real patriot"....LOL
Whatever HAPPENED to her? Is she that short on fortitude?
I have no idea...she has come unglued about so many things that Pres. Bush has done/not done...that she has become too much of a whiner IMHO>
I really can't listen to her show anymore...I try to, because there isn't anything on at the same time that I like...but, I usually end up getting mad.
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