Speaking today at the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, President Bush compared the current conflict in Iraq with Vietnam. But he meant it in a good way.
Attempting to shore up support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri "Good Guy" Al-Maliki, the President asserted that America's previous wars in Vietnam and Korea also lost popular support, but in the long run proved worthwhile, leading to lasting peace.
The question to ask Bush and war supporters is how many Iraqis must be killed to "win"? At what point will they surrender and lick our boots? The obvious answer to the latter is Never.
The Killing Fields were in Cambodia, not Vietnam.
And, by the way, Vietnam went in to Cambodia to try and take out the Khmer Rouge regime.
Yes, there were killings, a lot of killings, after we left. But you know what else happened after we left?
The country unified.
Do you recall how he pranced, giggled, and said, "Feels good!" as he left his primp session to announce his invasion of Iraq?
Now the used assWipe wants more and more to bleed and die for his Bosses, those shitty Neocons.
This does not prevent bitter old gung-hoers from even now saying, "The goddamn liberals are losing this war !" I've heard this many times.
Was a war ever lost without "We wuz stabbed in the back," as an excuse for the real culprits?
This man is no Texan. He moved to Texas from Maine, under the same set of false and hollow pretenses which govern every single thing he does. This is one of the world's most dangerous men, and his right-hand man is no better.
In the years immediately preceding "World War: Episode One" and "Two," plenty of folks were content to say that they could not smell blood in the air; that everything was going along as it should; that there was nothing at all to be afraid of. Yes, they said that in those days.
I think that we should stop "thinking small." Don't think 'Nam or Korea; those were merely regional wars. Think big. Think "World War, Episode Three: The Return of the Nukes."
A war to seize the oil resources of the world is going to very soon consume the whole world. And we know from history that each Episode featured prominently the same technological innovation that stalled the previous one. We have an arsenal of literally thousands of nuclear weapons of all shapes and sizes, not just ICBMs. When "Episode Three" breaks out, they will be used.
So... where were you, and what were you doing, "Before The War?" What did you do to try and stop it? Why didn't you do more, much more? What WERE you thinking? Why WEREN'T you thinking??
Synopsis from Wikpedia: Gaul was effectively conquered. As many as 1 million people (probably 1 in 4 of the Gauls) died, another million were enslaved, 300 tribes were subjugated and 800 cities were destroyed during the Gallic Wars. The entire population of city of Avaricum (Bourges) (40,000 in all) was slaughtered. During the Julius Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii (present-day Switzerland) approximately 60% of the tribe was destroyed, and another 20% was taken into slavery...Gaul never regained its Celtic identity, never attempted another nationalist rebellion, and remained loyal to Rome until the fall of the Western Empire in 476.
mike
I think the Afghans have a particular mind set about war. It’s a job. They do not get all worked up and go for a total victory, but instead, show up to work, fire a few shots and go home, 9-5. War is a socially stable avocation for them, supported by the community, the religion and blind to incidental death tolls. So they, and now the Iraqi insurgency are using the same very sustainable strategy, a strategy that can’t be defeated by a conventional army whose goal is total victory unless you act more like Hitler than you do Eisenhower.
We lose 2-5 soldiers and spend 200 million dollars a day to occupy Iraq . Bin Laden knew that if we would attempt to get even for 9/11 by invading the middle east that it would ruin us, because of the way we fight. We should have known that too, but went ahead and did it anyway. He, with his rag tag band of a few thousand, is bringing this country to its knees with a strategy that was proven on the Soviets. With the perspective of time, bin Laden will be the most highly regarded military and political strategist of this century and it was a gift from W. W will go down in history as what he is, an idiot.
His plan is to refight every single fight in American history, and try to make sure that no one wins this time.
Then, like the vultures they are, they can turn loose the Privateers to pick through the rubble.
The Captains of Industry in America have been bumbling aristocrats for too long... Georgie is the perfect rep for them. Trickle down for money, blame grows from the bottom up. Bad apples are falling all around this tree.
Insurgents or whatever you call them know the land, the people and the plan. We cannot win over there so we'll cause more harm over here.