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Don't Let Hanoi Jane turn into Jihad Jane
July 28, 2007 | do the dhue

Posted on 07/28/2007 2:58:41 PM PDT by do the dhue

"What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!" - General Giap, North Vietnam (memoirs)

Our fighting men in Vietnam took back the ground the NVA took during Tet. Before the Tet dust was even settled, people like Kronkite and Hanoi Jane convinced the American people the US Embassy in South Vietnam had been over run and it was time for us to run. As a matter of fact, a wall was breached. I believe a few Marines on the roof shot the leader and the rest turn tail and fled. But to Kronkite and the rest of the news media the Embassy had been over run.

Read the words of General Gaip. Once the North Vietnamise saw what our media was doing, they said hang on one more day, one week, one more month. Their Army was defeated but the media still gave the enemy resolve. Now, let's look at the resolve of Scary Reid and other demortic leaders.

Reid has no resolve. He thinks the war is lost. Gaip had his Army destroyed and he still had resolve. Reid has the greatest Army in the history of the world and he thinks the war is lost. The leaders of the demoratic party must understand that we live in a nuclear age. We can not wait for the enemy to bring the war to us. We must bring the war to them.

The media and the demoratic leaders must understand that the stakes are higher then they were in Vietnam. They say the war is going bad. Well, we were in WWII for four years and we lost 290,000. We have been in Iraq for four years and we lost 3,500 people. I am damn proud of my Troops. They are in the heart of the Middle East. A place that burns my flag and hates my guts. They are hunting and killing Al Qeada over there. We are taking the war to our enemy. Thank God for our Troops.

I can not thank God for the leaders in the demoratic Party though. More like, thank Satan. The rats say I was optimistic 2 years ago, so we need to pull out. Your dang right I was optimistic. I am still optimistic. I see that we have rebuilt infrastructure, there is a Iraqi Stock Market, I have heard of good reports in regards to the reflection of the Iraqi economy. I have heard that over 300,000 Iraqi Troops have been trained. I have heard the Police force is growing. I have heard that tribal leaders are working with the Iraqi Army and Police. Tough times don't last. Tough people do. We will help the Iraqi people stand for them self in times of trouble. We have to.

Pull out pf Iraq to early and what happens next will be on the liberals. Not on me. I hear there is some scuffling going on in Southern Iraq now. Well, I believe the British have pulled out or have begun to pull out of Southern Iraq. They may have left to early. We don't need to be listening to our media and treasonous politicians. I think Gaip was a right. I think we should listen to his words.

If Gaip is right, then resolve at home is mighty important. Resolve can win or lose wars people. If thge rats support our Troops, then they support victory. Our Troops are not fighting to lose. The rats need some resolve and they need to support the mission. Tight now, we need that Defense bill passed and I do mean now. And we don't need any crazy Amendments to it that effect the execution of the war.

I want to ask the demorats this:

When was the last time you heard anyone in your party say "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival of liberty"?

- JFK

I don't hear that from the likes of Hanoi Jane. If she had it her way, she would change her name to Jihad Jane. I stood with a bunch of Vietnam Vets on March 17th at the Gathering of eagles in DC. I heard a lot of them say that they did not want Hanoi Jane to do to our Troops what she had done to them in Vietnam. I stand firmly with these people. And I say Don't Let Hanoi Jane turn into Jihad Jane. I will be in DC on September 15, 2007 at the Gathering of Eagles. I have resolve. I wish liberals recognized the importance of resolve. (I think they do and that is why they act the way they do. They really want us to lose.)

Thanks for listening,
do the dhue


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To: do the dhue

Jane Fonda likes it long and hard.
Just ask the Vietnamese Army.


61 posted on 07/28/2007 7:11:55 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: do the dhue

Yes...I was only on there for a a couple of months in 1978, but we lost one of our planes and the pilot...our sister squadron. It was a cold cat shot, and the pilot ejected safely, but went down in the drink. He got tangled in his riser cords, and as I recall, they tried for about 15 minutes with the helo over him, a boat that had been launched and a swimmer in the water, the ship motionless.

This all took place several hundred feet away, in full view of the entire ship which had people in the hangar bays and catwalks watching. He went down and didn’t come up for a while. Eventually, they got him in the helo and got him aboard. I remember being in the hangar bay as they brought him down on the elevator and past my powerplants shop, doing CPR the whole time.

He didn’t make it.


62 posted on 07/28/2007 7:13:57 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: RichInOC

I hate to say this because it might start the war up again, but if she wanted long, she should have tried an African Nation.


63 posted on 07/28/2007 7:16:21 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: do the dhue

I had anti-aircraft guns in mind, not the other thing.


64 posted on 07/28/2007 7:17:30 PM PDT by RichInOC (Jane Fonda likes it long and hard. Just ask the Vietnamese Army.)
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To: secretagent
"How We Won the War" is a 64-page book that deals mostly with 1975 according to Amazon.com info and comments. I have not read the book.

Anybody got the Thursday August 3, 1995 edition of the Wall Street Journal laying around? An interview with Col. Bui Tin who served on Gen. Giap's general staff was published. Here's a part of the interview (I have not found the entire article).

"Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?

"A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us."

One site provided this link to other parts of the interview.

Here's one of Col. Bui Tin other comments: "Our forces in the South were nearly wiped out by all the fighting in 1968. It took us until 1971 to re-establish our presence, but we had to use North Vietnamese troops as local guerrillas. If the American forces had not begun to withdraw under Nixon in 1969, they could have punished us severely. We suffered badly in 1969 and 1970 as it was."

Of course this site is not a Eugene McCarthy Democratic Party or John Kerry Rat Party approved source like the esteemed Ed Moise.

This link above was provided by http://newsbusters.org/node/10406.

65 posted on 07/28/2007 7:17:45 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: RichInOC
my foul

On me.

66 posted on 07/28/2007 7:20:26 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: BIGLOOK
Giap does not try to conceal that the success of the final North Vietnamese advance to victory depended on the U.S. departure in 1975 and on the politically crippled position of President Richard M. Nixon. He also reveals the worry that surrounded the possibility of subsequent American reintervention in response to North Vietnamese offensive moves.

In point of fact the last US combat troops left Vietnam on March 29, 1973 as President Nixon declared "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come." On January 27, 1973 the last American soldier to die in combat in Vietnam, Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, is killed.

The South Vietnamese fought alone for two years after we left. The Vietnamese Communiists violated the Paris Peace Accords, which were signed on January 27, 1973. In early 1975, they invaded the South with 20 divisions. We did nothing in response. The US evacuated the Embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975.

Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 and Ford became the President.

67 posted on 07/28/2007 7:24:00 PM PDT by kabar
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
We need to learn from this.

Don't let the media and politicians in Congress effect the execution of this war and we will win it.

68 posted on 07/28/2007 7:28:36 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: do the dhue
RE: "Don't let the media and politicians in Congress effect the execution of this war and we will win it."

Yes and as I like to say, we've met the quagmire and it is us. Again!

We (the public) knew back then but we were the silenced majority except when it came to elections; to wit, we won 49 states to the Communists' enemy's one state, 1972.) No Internet, no modern talk radio (the "Fairness Doctrine"), no time for a street rumpus, we worked.

Another lesson is: watch out for authoritative "experts" like Ed Moise. To wit, he perhaps rightly states that Gen. Giap did not say such and such --- But! it's documented that at least one member of his staff, Col Bui Tin did say such and such. Why didn't the "expert" refute or acknowledge that? Another Clintonesque Rat?

69 posted on 07/28/2007 9:28:03 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
like Ed Moise. To wit, he perhaps rightly states that Gen. Giap did not say such and such

The Commies have an answer to everything.

70 posted on 07/28/2007 9:42:06 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: rlmorel
I am sorry to hear that.
71 posted on 07/28/2007 9:47:24 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: All
http://www.gohunter08.com/media.asp?z=1

Hunter has is pretty much right here.

I say we debated the war before we went. We will have plenty of time to debate it when it is over. During the mean time, I think we should all show resolve.

72 posted on 07/28/2007 10:21:23 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: All
http://www.gohunter08.com/media.asp?z=1

Made the above link just a click away...

73 posted on 07/28/2007 11:08:10 PM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: BIGLOOK; ASA Vet
Thanks for posting the excellent reality of Nam and how our left wing liberals in Congress and the MSM turned our victory into defeat.

Giap does not try to conceal that the success of the final North Vietnamese advance to victory depended on the U.S. departure in 1975 and on the politically crippled position of President Richard M. Nixon. He also reveals the worry that surrounded the possibility of subsequent American reintervention in response to North Vietnamese offensive moves.

74 posted on 07/29/2007 7:14:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Support Free Republic with donations, That is the conservative way. No Freeploading!)
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To: Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK; ASA Vet; ALOHA RONNIE; Leofl; All
Vietnam Stolen Honor

Kohn Kerry is the biggest nothing in history.

And never forget this one too:

Kerry insult Troops

75 posted on 07/29/2007 8:54:14 AM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: All; do the dhue

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No Joke.

JOHN KERRY =

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

.


76 posted on 07/29/2007 10:02:59 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
http://www.persecution.org/newsite/html/images/news/untitled.jpg

Where is Hanoi Jane's and MSMs outrage because of the treatment of our Soldiers in these Re-Education Camps?

The media and liberal freaks got all huffy over Abu Graib. I must have been to young to remember Hanoi's friends getty huffy over the treatment of our Soldiers in Re-Education Camps.

77 posted on 07/29/2007 10:38:09 AM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: do the dhue
Dag gone it!! I wanted this to post. My bad. On me.

Was there outrage from the left over this?

78 posted on 07/29/2007 11:06:58 AM PDT by do the dhue (Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SET 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
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To: kabar
Very good synopsis, KaBar.

During the summer of '71, the Marines left I Corps, their bases were turned over to Army. I left in late July, by that time Danang A/B was run by USAF but guarded by Army.

I just saw Newt on FNC this morning and he did a recap of Congress' actions leading up to the fall of Saigon. Congress cut off all aid and ammunition to the SVN gov't ensuring the collapse of an ally. Newt believes the Dem congress wants a VN Redux in Iraq.......and would allow the ensuing blood bath.

Years ago I met a vet who pulled a tour in the Saigon/ Nha Trang area after all combat personnel left and the ARVNs were in charge. He said a tour SVN at the time was not much different from a tour in the P.I. or Thailand. The ARVNs did ok.
79 posted on 07/29/2007 11:11:02 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: All; do the dhue

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Sen. TED KENNEDY,

...who pushed a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress into cutting off all our funding for the then Free-South Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with,

...went on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ earlier this year to lyingly tell the American People that “Only 100,000 people” lost their lives afer the Fall of Saigon in 1975 that he caused.

This after also lyingly telling the American People that America has now been in Iraq longer than we were in Vietnam.

Real Voices of CLARITY =

‘Making their voices heard’

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1741241.php

.


80 posted on 07/29/2007 11:14:41 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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