Well the dems do of course. You don't believe me? Well lets hear it from the horses mouth then.
Asked on CNN on Sunday if he wanted Congress to cut off funding for our forces in Iraq, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy remarked:
"Yes, ultimately, I do. I mean, this is the only way we stopped Vietnam. We had a lot of people who said they were opposed to it, but when we finally had a vote in April 1975, a key vote on the power of the purse, that's what stopped it."
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"But the Democrats — then as now — were more interested in embarrassing Republicans than in defending America, or keeping our word to friends of liberty in a place under threat from dark forces."
Yup, that just about sums it up.
Need more proof? Look no further than the fact that the pro-war Hillary is already the frontrunner candidate for the "anti-war" dem party. You do the math. Like Ive said...theyre a bunch of frauds.
Nobody wants another Vietnam but we've got one. Iraq is Bush's Vietnam. Bush's plan is to leave it to his successor who will probably be a Democrat.
there are some parallels that can be drawn between vietnam and iraq, but to say that "iraq is bush's vietnam" demonstrates a lack of understanding for the context of the vietnam war.
in vietnam, we went in and attempted to depose a legitimate regime and failed.
in iraq, we went in and attempted to depose a legitimate regime and succeeded.
the situation we face in iraq is akin to if we had defeated the north vietnamese but were still fighting the viet cong. see the difference?
i know i'm oversimplifying, but my point is that while it makes sense to compare certain aspects (like gradualism in troop deployment and fighting for a civilian population that sympathizes with our enemies), it's a mistake to say this is simply another vietnam.
because it's not.
[before the conservatives jump down my throat, i'm using a dictionary definition of legitimate--you know, legal--in describing the regimes above.]
No, sorry Donsky but Vietnam and Iraq are identical in every way.
Actually one could say that Iraq is Bush's Afghanistan (as in the Soviet's war) but I'm afraid that Afghanistan is Bush's Afghanistan.
Identical?
And the ground troops fighting the soviets were Bin Laden's monkey bar brigade. Who is taking the shit for us in Iraq? Nobody.
Well, except the five British guys. Since I stayed on a British base, I give them props.
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