MEDIACRATS ARE DESPERATE: THEY ARE AGAIN THE “ANTI-WAR, PULLOUT” PARTY. IT IS NOT WORKING FOR THEM. THEIR NEW MEME: “PULLING OUT OF VIETNAM WAS A GOOD THING FOR EVERYBODY, AND FORGET THE OVER 3,000,000 DEATHS IN THE KILLING FIELDS”

Posted by Republicanpundit on August 24th, 2007 in Dirty Politics, Dirty Tricks, Democrats, Democrat Presidential Candidates

I apologize for the long title but it has to be said.

Yesterday, I wrote about an article which tries to re-write history once again Here.
The title was appropiately called: The stupidest article I have ever read. I later updated it to a link to powerline which refuted everything said by the article I wrote about.

Today, Powerline linked to another article By Max Boot which contains more anologies of Vietnam that the dims do not want you to hear. John Podhoretz wrote another great article here

You need to read these articles.

From Mr. Boot:

Ever since the mid-1970s, critics of American military involvement have warned that any decision to deploy armed forces abroad–in Lebanon and El Salvador in the 1980s, in Kuwait, Somalia, and Kosovo in the 1990s, and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan–would result in “another Vietnam.” Conversely, supporters of those interventions have adamantly resisted any Vietnam comparisons.

President George W. Bush boldly abandoned that template with his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Wednesday. In a skillful bit of political jujitsu, he cited Vietnam not as evidence that the Iraq War is unwinnable, but to argue that the costs of giving up the fight would be catastrophic–just as they were in Southeast Asia.

This has met with predictable and angry denunciations from antiwar advocates who argue that the consequences of defeat in Vietnam weren’t so grave. After all, isn’t Vietnam today an emerging economic power that is cultivating friendly ties with the U.S.?

This is the new meme. We must expose and fight it at every opportunity.

From John Podhoretz: (Hattip Luscianne)

August 24, 2007 — AND so the world of conventional wisdom is even now rearing in horror at the mere thought of President Bush daring to compare the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam - or, rather, describing the consequences of losing the war in Iraq by discussing the consequences of our loss in Vietnam and asking the American people if they want to see that disastrous past repeated as our inglorious future.

You could almost feel the outrage rising like steam heat from the left side of the blogosphere: Why, doesn’t that evil moron know that Vietnam is our analogy?

Doesn’t he know no one should be permitted to mention Vietnam in any context other than the one we use - as an example of an immoral, pointless and stupid war, a quagmire from which the nation was saved not by heroes on the battlefield abroad but by political opposition at home?

After engineering the only defeat to the U.S., the media has used propoganda for 37 years to justify their heinous activities. President Bush boldly pointed out the actual results of our pullout from Vietnam. Now Liberal Dems and the Liberal Media are eating through their own foreheads and have launched the new meme.

Please send this article to all conservative sites that you know. We conservatives cannot allow another rewrite of history.

Posted by Republicanpundit

8 Responses to “MEDIACRATS ARE DESPERATE: THEY ARE AGAIN THE “ANTI-WAR, PULLOUT” PARTY. IT IS NOT WORKING FOR THEM. THEIR NEW MEME: “PULLING OUT OF VIETNAM WAS A GOOD THING FOR EVERYBODY, AND FORGET THE OVER 3,000,000 DEATHS IN THE KILLING FIELDS””

  1. Kathy Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am

    RP - awesome, and it must be said. Those of us who wept at the disgrace of our soldiers and our country in those dismal days remember the lies they told, the lies they repeat today.

    Nixon was crippled by Watergate, a surrender democrat Congress, and a hostile media, and they are trying to repeat that with GWB. This is the type of disaster that comes from journalists who don’t want to report the story they want to shape the future into their warped reality.

    Unfortunately for them, we remember. And we are left to wonder are they stupid or blind or both?

    Vietnam did not cost us the cold war, but it was a battle in it we lost. It is possible to lose a battle and not lose the war.

    Thank God for Ronald Reagan. Carter was dismantling our defenses (Panama Canal, Iranian Hostage Crisis, etc) faster than any president in history, and his legacy was continued by Bill “I gave the CIA a kill order” Clinton.

    We cannot as a nation afford the ignorance and fecklessness of the left/media.

  2. Republicanpundit Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 11:33 am

    Thanks, Kathy. Your comments are spot on.

  3. Kathy Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 11:49 am

    BTW, RP, the Podhoretz article is the best piece I’ve seen on this topic. Great link.

  4. Kathy Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    Here’s more from the Washington Times editorial:

    The power of analogizing a war still vociferously debated is what jars people here, so by all means, let us have this debate. Mr. Bush’s premise is that Vietnam was, in fact, a winnable war and a war which was worth fighting, but one which was undercut by an irresponsible Congress against a weakened president, the legacy of McGovernite Democrats. Another premise is that the horrors of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, the brutality of Vietnam’s Communists against vanquished U.S. allies and against civilians and the millions of resulting refugees could each have been lessened or avoided if the United States had somehow been able to sustain its will to fight. Similarly, the analogy goes, Iraq is a war worth fighting and winning. We stand at risk of a shortsighted Congress cutting the effort short.

    These words from Mr. Bush, in short, constitute a statement of belief in the power of American arms and ingenuity in the face of a totalitarian insurgent force, a rebuke of a defeatist Congress then and now, as well as a defense of the hawkish anti-Communism which the president rightly considers an antecedent to the current antiterrorism campaign. No wonder it so grates on the political left. Their opposing view of Vietnam and of Iraq crashes head-on into Mr. Bush’s formulation. Vietnam was an unwinnable war from the start, by the political left’s telling, one which the United States should not have fought, and one without which there would have been no Vietnamese refugee crisis (or Cambodian genocide or Laotian Communist dictatorship).

    This is, in short, hawks versus McGovernites all over again, the forces of American perseverance against the forces of defeatism. Congress will soon need to decide which path to take, and the Vietnam analogy truly does reach the heart of the matter.

  5. Republicanpundit Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Kathy, This is a debate worth having.

    We are having it!!!

    Great Link.

  6. Republicanpundit Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Another comment Here:

    The poisoning of the political climate was North Vietnam’s most effective weapon. It is not yet al-Qaeda’s, but it could be. As Hanoi publicly admitted at the time, its 1968 Tet Offensive ended in costly defeat, but no one in America wanted to know. Its 1972 Easter offensive also failed; but by then most Americans believed the war was lost.

    Yet even by 1972, and even though much of the US media was writing that America was the problem, not the solution, and that the Vietnamese should be left to fight it out, voters did not want to leave their ally in the South defenceless. Senator George McGovern campaigned that year on a platform of an immediate cessation of bombing and a complete withdrawal within 90 days of taking office. The result was one of the Democrats’ most spectacular defeats, and Richard Nixon’s reelection.

  7. Kathy Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    RP! That’s a great one. So much for the country being against Vietnam.

    Another element that is missing from the calculation of the left in trying to institute the Vietnamization of Iraq, the US Military is all volunteer. The strongest argument the left in the sixties had was that the young men were drafted into a conflict they did not understand.

    Our young men and women VOLUNTEER. They are not stupid like Kerry, and they are not victims (which also implies stupidity). They are there willingly defending us against the terrorists who most surely would be here instead.

    Vietnam did follow us home in one way, it hobbled us. Iraq is an opportunity to prove to the defeatists and pacifists that America can win, will win, and is indeed the strongest nation on earth, and it is because we are capitalists not socialists, individuals not collectives, and freedom loving not freedom loathing.

    Democrats on the wrong side of foreign policy issues for over forty years - and why is that? They fail to learn from their mistakes. They make every effort to repeat them as if failing twice is a form of exoneration.

  8. Republicanpundit Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    Kathy,

    The country was not against the War, only the media was and portrayed that (sound familiar), and soundly proved that in the Presidential elections of 2002.

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