The Gift Keeps Giving
Say what you will about Howard Dean, but he remains the ‘gift’ that keeps on giving to Republicans. In his latest gift, Dr. Dean announces on WOIA radio
“The idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong”, then adding “I’ve seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, ‘just another year, just stay the course, we’ll have a victory.’ Well, we didn’t have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening.”
Ladies and gentlemen, that’s the epitome of irresponsibility on Dr. Dean’s behalf and he should be scolded for saying that. Stating emphatically that we can’t win in Iraq is bad enough but then equating Iraq to Vietnam is beyond contemptible. This is why the Democratic Party isn’t taken seriously on national security issues.
“I think we need a strategic redeployment over a period of two years,” Dean said. “Bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately. They don’t belong in a conflict like this anyway.”
Dr. Dean, are you serious? Reservists sign up knowing that they’re likely the first to be called up to augment the active troops. Now you think that they don’t “belong in a conflict like this anyway”? Do you actually ever use logic to arrive at these conclusions or do you just shoot from the lip first and not look back afterwards? I’ve got a strong opinion on that but I’d just like it confirmed.
“What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate,” Dean said. “It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for the power to go to war. The President said last week that Congress saw the same intelligence that he did in making the decision to go to war, and that is flat out wrong.”
Dr. Dean’s essentially right that Congress didn’t see the same intelligence that the President saw. The intelligence that the President saw painted a much worse picture. Had the Senate seen this intelligence, they likely would’ve had a unanimous vote, possibly even by unanimous consent.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing
December 6th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
You, and everyone else, are perpetuating a treasonous lie about the Vietnam War. The truth is that the South Vietnamese, U. S. and allied troops, actually WON the war! Yes, we lost 58,000+ lives in that war, and the South Vietnamese lost many, too. The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) was heavily involved in South Vietnam from the mid-1960s, and by the time the war was over had lost 1,100,000 troops killed in action! After the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 the U. S. promised to continue giving South Vietnam almost $200,000,000 annually in aid, while the Soviet Union promised to give an equal amount to the North. The newly elected “Peace” Congress refused to appropriate U. S. aid and South Vietnam received NONE of the support that had been promised. The Soviets gave close to four times as much as they had promised, opposed to nothing from the U. S., and still the invasion of the South by the NVA in 1973 was totally defeated by the South Vietnamese. It took two more years of $1 billion in aid and training for the NVA from the Soviets before the NVA was finally able to invade the South again and defeat the South Vietnamese in 1973. Ironically, and tragically, Dr. Dean and the others who compare Iraq to Vietnam don’t know how right they are. We won Vietnam and we’ll win in Iraq unless the treasonous media and political hacks that have taken over the Democratic party are able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
January 27th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
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