Posted on 11/19/2008 4:17:41 PM PST by lewisglad
The Left played their part: first there was the "illegal bombing of Cambodia scandal" which didn't gain traction because pretty much everybody knew that we were bombing the NVA in Cambodia (which was there "illegally" if such a term can apply to Communists). Then the Left tried something called the "Milk Fund Scandal" which went over like a personal gas event in church. That didn't work, so next came Watergate - which really only involved slimy 'ol John Dean and his black bag team. The investigators had that wrapped up in less than two weeks and had indictments ready - but the Democrats weren't about to let the guilty parties get charged and tried until they had a chance to get at the Nixon White House and 'ol Archy Cox was the right guy for the job. They deliberately held back the indictments, stalling for the Ervin committee and Cox (and a young unknown radical named Hillary in a supporting role) to find something, anything to connect to Nixon.
They pulled it off and Nixon resigned rather than put the country into a civil war.
With Nixon gone and the country in shock, the slimes in Congress passed the War Powers act, and the NVA steamrolled through what was left of our democratic ally almost unapposed.
We have that shame to live with - with the refugees and the "reeducation camps" and the genocide in cambodia - and it took a long time and Ronald Reagan to finally regain some trust with our allies.
But of course, you can't stand Nixon and he was a "crook". He didn't have people murdered, like JFK and he didn't use the White House as his personal bordello, like JFK and he didn't stand around looking stupid while the enemy stomped our ally like Jerry ford, and he didn't pardon the draft dodgers on his first day in office and then drastically reduce our defense department and intelligence agencies like Carter - but he was a bad man, right?
You are a true product of our Leftist school system...
You're history of Viet Nam does not negate the fact that we had already survived a change of president during that war. So your original point was ridiculous and a weak attempt.
I went to very conservative catholic boarding school where they also taught us to think and regognize that people who name call usually have already lost the argument.
Prissy.
But hey, let's all weep because those evil leftists made him do it.
The War Powers Act was enacted on November 7, 1973, after congress overrode Nixon's veto. Ten days later, Nixon gave the "I am not a crook" speech. It was the following August before he resigned.
Right.
And it was the kiss of death for South Vietnam. The Democratic Congress had that final act of betrayal to be proud of.
So why aren't you describing the evils of the corrupt and pro-enemy Congress or the slimy media or the 5th Column masquerading as a "peace movement"?
Nixon was the only patriot left in the government.
Hey, I’m just correcting your timeline. You said that Nixon was gone when the act was passed, when in fact he was in office nearly a year more. Beyond that, rave on. The Paris Peace Accords had long been signed. Do you really think that NIxon was going to introduce troops back into Vietnam after they’d all been withdrawn? And frankly, the Case-Church amendment, passed with a veto-proof, bipartisan vote had more to do with Vietnam than the War Powers Act did.
Nixon didn't have to re-introduce troops - he launched the B-52s from Guam and Thailand and the carrier aircraft against the NVA columns in 1973 and crushed their Easter Offensive. (So much for the NVA and living up to the Paris Peace Accords...)
Nixon was the only one hanging on to our obligations and the NVA and their supporters here knew that. That's why the campaign to get him out of office, not any sudden surge of morality in our government.
Strongly suspect you didn't serve during the war..
That would explain a lot.
You get squat until you admit that simple fact.
Real conservatives serve when a war's on. Unless you had something wrong with you that kept you from serving, that's the way it is.
The day you get any more personal information about me will be if you happen to read my obituary.
I thought so!
You're busy trying to make Nixon seem like a bad guy in comparison to what preceded him and then what followed, when in fact you let others risk their lives for their country.
Who took your place while you stayed hidden under your bed?
August 8, 1974, Nixon's enemies cheered.The election of James Earl Carter was to be the wholesome catharsis.
1975-81 was spent encouraging the Soviet bear, betraying the Shah and empowering the Ayatollah, humiliating the leader of the Free World for 444 days, the inverse of Kennedy's Innaugural in which Carter "betrayed every friend, embraced every foe, to bury the survival of freedom in the world."
Carter and Turner chopped 820 CIA case officers Halloween 1977.
The Pol Pot regime (Durbin, hang your head) massacred two million as a direct legacy of the Democrat betrayal of South Vietnam and the 58,000 Americans who gave their lives to oppose Communist tyranny.
And what did Nixon do? A single file--compared to Hillary and Craig Livingstone's 1,000. . . .
The Communists hated Nixon then and hate him now because he outed Alger Hiss.
And what do we have now. . . .
Apologist. It must be easy to call someone a coward on the internet. I'm sorry your hero turned out to be a crook.
Good post Phil. I like him in that garb.
August 8, the day before my birthday. I am Leo, hear me roar.
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