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2007/2/6

Who Wants Another Vietnam?

@ 11:55 AM (18 months, 29 days ago)

from Opinion Journal

  • "Last year, some believed that cutting back our military assistance to the South Vietnamese Government would induce negotiations for a political settlement. Instead, the opposite has happened. North Vietnam is refusing negotiations and is increasing its military pressure."--Gerald Ford, "Special Message to the Congress Requesting Supplemental Assistance for the Republic of Vietnam and Cambodia," Jan. 28, 1975

  • "I want to make it very clear that we need to threaten the Iraqi government, that we're going to take money away from their troops, not our troops who still lack body armor and armored vehicles; that we're going to send a clear message--that we are finished with their empty promises and with this president's blank check."--Hillary Clinton, speech to the Democratic National Committee, Feb. 2, 2007

Comment(s) »

  1. What poll was she reading when she made that particular statement? Did she plagarize it from Joe Biden?

    Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/02/06 @ 04:25 PM — (Reply)

  2. We're in this to the end. Sure, more troops, but the killings of insurgents must increase as well. Bush had best stop appeasing the Iraqis, however, and needs to put a boot up their ass.

    Comment by Steve Harkonnen— 2007/02/07 @ 12:47 AM — (Reply)

  3. This is beginning to stink like '75.

    Comment by Farmer John— 2007/02/07 @ 01:53 AM — (Reply)

  4. Let's threaten the Iraqis?!?

    Is she insane?!?

    Yeah, those Iraqis respond well to threats, especially after years of it from Saddam. Shrillary is a coward and a bully!

    Comment by Brooke— 2007/02/07 @ 02:53 AM — (Reply)

  5. It's been a sham since day one - based on lies - murder at best - Bush should be hung like Saddam for crimes against humanity.

    Comment by Sloppy— 2007/02/07 @ 03:47 AM — (Reply)

  6. If being a lying and murdering politician were a crime...they'd have to hang every members of Congress along side him.

    Comment by Farmer John— 2007/02/07 @ 08:15 AM — (Reply)

  7. Wow, EB! GREAT blog! I don't know how I have missed you in the past... You're linked now and I will surely be back!

    Comment by Defiant_Infidel— 2007/02/07 @ 05:52 AM — (Reply)

  8. hi dugg....

    Steve....go to dod.gov you'll see we're killing them alright. My friends tell me we've been kicking their ass we just haven't convinced the media that it needs to report it.

    DI thanks and welcome...I'll reciprocate

    Comment by elmers brother— 2007/02/07 @ 08:11 AM — (Reply)

  9. fj....the left may get their genocide no matter what we do

    Comment by elmers brother— 2007/02/07 @ 08:12 AM — (Reply)

  10. I am keeping my intellectual powder dry until the Iran conflict begins.

    Comment by Barry G.— 2007/02/07 @ 12:10 PM — (Reply)

  11. There will be a huge conflict once we go into Iran (or Israel decides to). China or Russia are semi-allied to Iran and won't allow the Iranians to get overrun and occupied like Iraq. Be prepared for horrors if that happens.

    Comment by Florian— 2007/02/07 @ 02:11 PM — (Reply)

  12. If any other leader in the world was doing what bush was doing you'd all be screaming for us to nuke them.

    Comment by Sloppy— 2007/02/08 @ 04:05 AM — (Reply)

  13. why don't people remember pol pot's cambodia?

    o.t. - elbro - did you see any of these over phoenix in the last few days?

    atrium

    Comment by nanc— 2007/02/08 @ 04:07 AM — (Reply)

  14. It seems that from the very beginning of this war, the press and the left-wingers wanted to draw comparisons to Vietnam. Terms like quagmire and bogged down were used purposely for this purpose. Now Congress is threatening to do what was done to South Vietnam. We have come full circle. This is an object of their creation.

    Comment by American Crusader— 2007/02/08 @ 11:02 AM — (Reply)

  15. those are flares nanc..

    AC - the left is on the wrong side of history again and they are condemned to repeat it...in '75 when they pulled the rug out of the South Vietnamese gov't...it caused genocide and 1.5 million people were sent to reeducation camps.....

    flo - elaborate what do you think?

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/08 @ 11:50 AM — (Reply)

  16. I sure as hell don't want to see Americans choppered off of foreign roofs every again.

    Comment by Barry G.— 2007/02/08 @ 12:18 PM — (Reply)

  17. Did Hillary spout those words before or after the imam's "prayer" at the Dems' winter meeting? Or did she say this at the winter meeting or at some other gathering?

    Comment by Always On Watch— 2007/02/09 @ 03:22 AM — (Reply)

  18. HISTORY ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF!!!!!!!!! ALWAYS!!!!!!!!! IT,S PRETTY DISHEARTENING TO SEE THE SAME SCUMBAGS (HILLARY) STILL INVOLVED THOUGH. PERSONALLY, I DON,T THINK SHE,LL GET NOMINATED. SHE,S JUST TOO DAMNED OBNOXIOUS , AND SHE HAS WAY TOO MUCH BAGGAGE. THE DHIMMICRATS WANT A SURE WINNER THIS TIME , AND SHE MAY BE TOO MUCH OF A LIABILITY.

    Comment by OSONS FOR LIBERTY — 2007/02/09 @ 10:49 AM — (Reply)

  19. aow - i sent you the vid - the imam gave the prayer in the last three minutes of the two hours and fifty some odd minutes = kind of like sealing their fate...at least with God...

    Comment by nanc— 2007/02/09 @ 11:17 AM — (Reply)

  20. I understand why the American Left hates victory; victory is actual superiority instead of the easy smug moral superiority that they at once pride themselves on and encourage everyone else to participate in. (You know the drill; wear the ribbon; speak on TV; march.) It promotes a clear line of "winner" and "loser"; it rewards the victor, and punishes the defeated. I am convinced that no person who loves not their country should ever be elected. How can you act in the best interests of your voters if you despise the voters as a whole that are America herself?

    Comment by InRussetShadows— 2007/02/09 @ 03:36 PM — (Reply)

  21. That is an excellent observation Russet.

    Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/02/09 @ 04:31 PM — (Reply)

  22. were going to once again stick our nose where it don't belong

    Comment by mel mel— 2007/02/10 @ 10:37 AM — (Reply)

  23. ELABORATION: China and Russia (especially China) get most of their petrol from Iran and they have been allied (though not officially) to Iran for sometime now. Russia even ships them military technology. Putin's sly remarks he made recently about the USA causing all of the world's trouble sounds very reminiscent of Ahmadinejackjob. Russia and China will not allow their energy supplies to be interrupted by another US invasion of an oil rich nation. That's why the stakes are so much higher with Iran--and also why the US has been so hesitant to turn the towel-head nation into a radioactive parking lot. Israel has been pushed back as well--don't worry though plans are probably already under way. We can't go back now. Some slight incident could set off a war with all the military hardware in the region.

    Comment by Florian— 2007/02/11 @ 09:06 AM — (Reply)

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