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01-05-2007 07:57 AM |
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Originally posted by daepp
Pat - I suspect you are a very intelligent person. However, I can make no sense of your post.
Why don't you pasre Coulter's piece and tell us what you disagree with. Prefereably without a lot of unnecessary labels.
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Treating such a shrill piece as credible isn't possible, but here's a part I'll use as a demonstration.
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written by Ann CoulterThe passing of Gerald Ford should remind Americans that Democrats are always lying in wait, ready to force a humiliating defeat on America.
More troops, fewer troops, different troops, "redeployment" -- all the Democrats' peculiar little talking points are just a way of sounding busy. Who are they kidding? Democrats want to cut and run as fast as possible from Iraq, betraying the Iraqis who supported us and rewarding our enemies -- exactly as they did to the South Vietnamese under Ford.
Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat, a tradition they have brought back for the Iraq war.
They insisted on calling the Soviet-backed Vietcong "the National Liberation Front of Vietnam," just as they call Islamic fascists killing Americans in Iraq "insurgents." Ho Chi Minh was hailed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat," just as Michael Moore compares the Islamic fascists in Iraq to the Minute Men.
During the Vietnam War, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger told his father that if an American soldier ran into a North Vietnamese soldier, he would prefer for the American to get shot. "It's the other guy's country," he explained.
Now, as publisher of the Times, Pinch does all he can to help the enemy currently shooting at American soldiers.
After a half-dozen years of Democrat presidents creating a looming disaster in Vietnam -- with Kennedy ordering the assassination of our own ally in the middle of the war and Johnson ham-handedly choosing bombing targets from the Oval Office -- in 1969, Nixon became president and the world was safe again.
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First, the Democrats were totally responsible for the entry into and prosecution of the Vietnam war, including the fake Tonkin Gulf incident, and were not in any way in opposition to it. So, that's factually incorrect. Further, Nixon, claimed to be able to prosecute the Vietnam war better than Johnson did, and proceeded to do exactly the same things Johnson did, which produced the same results. The only positive thing Nixon did was begin to remove troops from Vietnam, but about 400% slower than he should have done. Gerald Ford withstood tremendous pressure to return to Vietnam and resume combat operations, one of his few positive activities.
What Ann Coulter proves, again, is that she's speaking to the neocon booboise, and no one else.
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