Letters to the Editor
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Great Ideas
Especially if they come from a man who went AWOL even after he managed to stay away from the fighting due to family connections.
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follow us home
And I see he also dragged out his favorite old saw "we have to fight them there because if we pull out they will come here". Does anyone out there other than Bush actually buy this? Has anyone ever directly challenged this assertion? And if we are attacked here while our army is still in Iraq what will he say then?
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Hmm
maybe someone should let Bush in on the fact that 'killing fields' originated with Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia and that, once freed from the war with the US, Ho Chi Minh was able to conquer and depose that savage dictator.
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I think if you use that tactic...
you'd be more accurate to reference Ronald Reagan's abandonment of Lebanon after the Marine barracks bombing there. If there was one act that told the Middle East that we had no staying power, it was that one.
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Uh, ya know, Chimpy, maybe it's not a good idea for you to bring up Vietnam
I seem to remember something ... what was it?
Oh yeah, now I remember: YOU BUGGED OUT!
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It's easy to rewrite history
when you know nothing about that part of history to begin with. "We" left Vietnam early? Ha, that's a good one. Maybe had he been there back in the day, that comment might mean something to somebody. But it means nothing at all to anybody, of course.
I love when Bush invokes the "warnings" of people like bin Laden. One minute, he's a liar who can't be trusted or certainly negotiated with, but when he says something that can be twisted into a politically convenient scare tactic, boy, we need to heed every syllable as though it's the gospel truth, don't we?
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"We must listen to the words of the enemy."
THIS from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
How is this not treason?
The ONLY positive aspect of extending our involvement in Vietnam would've been sending Bush to fight in it once he came down from his coke binge.
What a fucking loser.
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Uh, the killing fields were in Cambodia and had nothing to do with Vietnam
... except to the extent that the destabilization of Cambodia and the ensuing civil war and rise of the Khmer Rouge were a result of Henry Kissinger's illegal secret carpet-bombing of the country.
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Slight correction
Yes, after the end of the war, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and deposed Pol Pot, but Ho Chi Minh had died about ten years before. Their Cambodian invasion occurred in 1979, while Ho Chi Minh died in 1969.
Minor point, I guess. The truth is, Vietnam did get rid of one of the more brutal humans who ever drew breath when they ousted Pol Pot.
As for Bush, I find it totally bizarre that this chickenhawk dares to pose as a "student of history", drawing bass-ackwards lessons from real history to justify his war of choice in Iraq.
How do audiences fail to laugh out loud at this fool when he spouts such nonsense? Totally baffling.
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Support the troops unless
Bush said that there is "no debate" in his mind that the veterans from Vietnam deserve the high praise of the United States of America."
Unless the vet is John Kerry.
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when I first ran into the "Recreate 68" website, I wondered if it was an FBI/DHS sting operation ...
it purports to be a "gathering site" for coordination of demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Denver next year ...
I thought it was a very bad idea ... although certainly the disappointing positions taken by the "front-running" democratic candidates wrt getting out of Iraq seemed vaguely analogous to the frustration the anti-war movement felt seeing business-as-usual at the 68 convention, resulting in Hubert Humphrey's nomination.
At the moment, I'm reconsidering, yet again, perhaps "Recreate 68" is the ultimate Karl Rove E-ticket to redeem the Rethugs ...
I'm considering taking some time off from monitoring all this ... it's all so dishonestly manipulative. As another letter writer said today elsewhere (I think in Glenn's blog), this is ALL about domestic politics ... it's all theatre for domestic advantage ... real world consequences hardly figure into the day-to-day posturing. We are so screwed.
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Tit for Tet?
I wonder if this latest blitz is with a mind toward energizing their Brimstone Base for 2008, since the whole modern Rabid Right arose from about Goldwater in 1964 and beyond, and the shadow of American "defeat" in Vietnam (I use quotation marks because that's how the Right sees it, that we didn't lose, rather than liberals causing America to lose will).
They've always had that Vietnam Syndrome front and center in their minds. It peppered their think tank-cultivated hatespeak in the 70s, and certainly motivated the Reagan "Revolution" of the 80s, and the Bush Doctrine of the 00s (which would appear to be War Without End, Amen).
They're still pissed about Vietnam (especially, oddly enough, all these reactionary chickenhawks who didn't fight it), and want the US to pursue an unapologetically unilateralist and militaristic foreign policy, regardless of outcome, as if pure hubris and imperial saber-rattling can carry the day in this increasingly international, multipolar world.
If ever anything demonstrates how much the GOP doesn't get it, how much the Brimstone Base is out of touch with current events (and given their addiction to Limbaugh and Fox, how can they NOT be?) -- this hearkening back to Vietnam does. Time for regime change at home, big time.
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The coward played right into bin laden's hands
"We must listen to the words of the enemy. We must listen to what they say."
First of all, I don't see anyone advocating that we ignore "the enemy."
But I have to believe that by invading Iraq and cutting our civil liberties, Bush has done exactly what bin Laden would wish him to do. He has given those so inclined in the world reason to hate us even more. He has made us look like panicky fools, throwing the very rights the world admires overboard in response to a guy in a cave in Afghanistan. By torturing and imprisoning without recourse to justice, he has lowered us to the standards of the vilest dictators.
Bush has made us look like cowards. His war is like the codpiece in his flight suit. He straps it on so he can feel like a manly man. His manhood might feel protected, but the rest of us are terribly exposed.
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Jesus H. Christ
I really thought he couldn't get any stupider, more arrogant, ignorant, absurd, contemptuous, contemptible, foolish, idiotic, and just plain nasty. Well, I guess I was wrong. The nerve!