Posted on 03/14/2007 3:17:12 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Excellent!
By fostering hatred for Bush, America and the war the Democrats are creating an enviornment for recruiting terrorists. Look at Democrat blogs, look at what Democrats say. They are becomming America's enemy.
Hang Murtha, Kerry, and Reid on the capitol lawn.
I think there is treason in the Executive Branch when the Prez won't pardon two Border Patrol Agents who were framed.
Excellent article..thanks.
I would like to say it matters. All is true. Now what are we going to do about it?
We have known this for a long time. It just progresses forward with very little response that is taken seriously.
Ditto that. They should all be looking over their shoulders. Lines are being drawn.
Thank you for this post!
This is crazy talk. We live in a democracy and the people elect their representatives. The Dems won the last election, so you can't say it's treason for them to try to implement their policies. When the Pubbies win Congress back, they can implement their policies.
mngran
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Lovely, I defend democracy and you ask for me to be banned.
Did I say I agreed with the Dems policies? Did I say I didn't fear failure in Iraq would endanger generations of Americans? No, I just pointed out we're lucky enough to live in a country where the people decide who their leaders are.
therein lies the problem.
no one in the govt. with guts and conviction to bring charges of treason. the definition is clear. now it has to be applied.
That is true. Why is it we can get nothing done?
Comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam are a dime a dozen and worth even less. In Vietnam we were fighting the regular forces of the NVA in addition to the Communist irregulars of the VC across a agricultural countryside with a mostly uneducated populace. In Iraq, we face three major groups of enemies: Shiite militia (essentially poor, angry, radicalized teenagers with guns), Sunni insurgents (holdouts from the old regime), and foreign Arabs who come to fight the Great Satan. All three of these groups are further broken down along tribal, political, and sometimes even neighborhood lines. The terrain is vastly different, and the population is much more educated and affluent, on average, than it was in Vietnam.
(which, of course, was a "quagmire" of the Democrats' own making, only because of Democrats' refusal to do the obvious things necessary to win the war quickly and decisively)
Whatever. Johnson used upwards of a half million troops, more bombs than we dropped on the Germans, chemical defoliant, strategic hamlets, forcible relocation, and a secret invasion of Cambodia to try to bring the war to a conclusion. He and MacNamara made huge mistakes, but no one can tell me that LBJ didn't intend to do what he had to to win the war.
Besides which, the author seems to forget that Republicans ran the White House for four years during the war. After Tet the national dialog turned from, "How do we win this?" to "How do we get out of this?" and Richard Nixon campaigned under a "peace with honor" platform.
We shall see.
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