Two posts on Michelle's blog that are worth noting...
The Senate's twin votes this week on the war put the mid-terms next year into sharp focus. The Senate voted 58-40 against a measure introduced by Sen. Carl Levin that would have set up a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and voted in favor of a more vague measure that merely suggests that the Bush administration clarify a few things about the war and when we might expect to see our troops start coming home.
This vote screams of the cut off of funding for the S Vietnamese in 1974...which, Tony Blankley posts about here via Michelle...
It was 30 years ago when Congress last took the reins of national war fighting. In August 1974, Nixon had been scandalized and left office. The November 1974 election brought forth the "Watergate babies" congress filled with young anti-war Democrats. One of the first actions of the Watergate Congress was to vote to deny an appropriation of $800 million to pay for South Vietnamese military aid, including ammunition and spare parts. Historical records now are known that reveal that five weeks after that vote, the North Vietnamese started planning their final offensive. The morale of the South Vietnamese was broken by that symbolic Congressional act of betrayal. The actual dollar cuts forced South Vietnamese President Thieu to abandon the Central Highland in March of 1975, leading to the collapse of our ally and the onset of genocide and police state brutalities that killed more Asians than all the thousand days of the war did.
Now the Watergate babies have grown old -- and age has not improved them. They plan to finish their careers as they started them -- in defeatism, betrayal and national dishonor. Oh, that America might see the last of these fish-eyed sacks of loathsome bile and infamy: Unwholesome in their birth; repugnant and stench-forming in their decline.
We dishonored our country, our soldiers and our friends in 1974...and now the Senate wants to repeat the mistakes of the past. The parallels are frightening. Beginning in the election of '04, Dem's have tried to turn the Iraq war into 'another Vietnam'. And now, it appears as though they have succeeded. If they get their wish...and we telegraph the date of our departure...the enemy waits in hiding, giving everyone a false sense of hope that the war truly is over. No soldiers will be killed in the final days leading up to the withdrawl. Once we are out of town...they strike! And they strike hard. The Iraqi people will be forced back into a life of fear...because we buggered out of town.
It took nearly 10 years after that fateful vote for America to regain her prominence and respect in the world mainly due to the work of Ronald Reagan. How long will it take if we skate this time?
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