John Kerry's Bright Shining Lie (Exclusive to HUMAN EVENTS)

Human Events Online ^ | February 27, 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[SolidSupplySide]

Vietnam was America's war. It was part of the bigger Cold War.

Vietnam was the last time national leaders in the Democratic and Republican parties acted together in the nation's best interest.

By teh end of the Vietnam War, liberals decided that America should not use its military for its own nation interests. Liberals now think the military should be exclusively used when America's national interests are not at stake (Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti).

[cyncooper]

We freepers have been noting for weeks Kerry's use of the phrase "Nixon's War" and we have been pointing out the falseness of this statement, plus analyzed the reasons Kerry uses this phrase.

[Enterprise]

Slime, disgrace, dishonor - they must be talking about Democrats again.

[Nonstatist]

Vietnam was the last time national leaders in the Democratic and Republican parties acted together in the nation's best interest.

Dole said it right when he said it was the Democrat's War. It was a police action, and Johnson never had any intention of doing what was necessary to win it outright.

Of course, Nixon was between a rock and a hard place,and the antiwar leftists have since then rewritten history once again..

[Seruzawa]

You can go back to Truman for the seeds of the war. Ho Chi Minh went to WashDC after the war to offer Cam Ranh Bay as an American Naval base if Truman would keep Roosevelt's promise to refuse to help European nations from reclaiming their colonies. Truman refused to meet Ho and instead supported the French return to Vietnam. In hindsight a horrible blunder.

This and the Koreran War, another Democrat blunder, for some reason get left out of any discussion about the great Truman.

[camle]

if athe war belonged to anybody, I'd have to say it was LBJ. he was certainly the most hawkish about it.

[writer33]

That whole 60's era was screwed up by liberals. We need a complete do over, as far as I'm concerned. Give us a chance to change it for the better.

Even my father, a lib, has no respect for the John Kerry liberal. My father has too much respect for the uniform, whether he hates President Bush or not.

[laconic]

Sam Brown was a leader of the antiwar movement and a bum appointed by Carter to be head of the Peace Corps and by Clinton to be "ambassador" to the Conference on European Security but denied confirmation by the Senate. Sam Brown went to the UN in 1975 to "congratulate" the communists on their "victory" achieved through the help of scum like himself.

[Chi-townChief]

Every so often, Pat manages to get good wood on the ball.

[whereasandsoforth]

They call it "Nixon's War" because Nixon is the only republican president they can link it to without having to go back before John Kennedy. It's just more dishonesty from the people that can't exist without dishonesty.

[AmericanMade1776]

Home Run for Real!

[Califelephant]

Has the "conventional wisdom" ever been so wrong about anything as it is about the Vietnam War?

[Valin]

the Koreran War, another Democrat blunder

Blunder? Not hardly.

[Seruzawa]

I consider that Truman's decision to NOT arm the South Korean Army effectively WAS a serious blunder. They were armed only with small arms and a few small artillery pieces while the NKs were building up a mass of T34s and other heAVY gear.

Appeasement never works.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I have had idiots try to blame Nixon for the war by saying that it was his fault for not getting us out faster.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Nixon's war? Hell, there are pictures of LBJ personally picking targets as if it were some sort of game!

[Brian Allen]

<< But LBJ had already planned an escalation. In August of 1964 came the Tonkin Gulf incident between U.S. destroyers and North Vietnamese gunboats. A Democratic House voted 416 to 0 and a Democratic Senate 88 to 2 to authorize LBJ to take us into war. >>

The only place the so-called "Tonkin Gulf incident" occured was in the hatred-driven delusional fantasies of such of the un-and-anti-American pantheist-left's pustulant propagandists as the loathsome and fearsome Joseph Goebbels-cloned Bill Moyers and Jack Valente.

And in LBJ's every Moyers-authored military-industrial-complex lickspittling and war-mongering diatribe, from which, let it never be forgotten, failed school-teacher Johnson -- and every other along-for-the-ride "DemocRAT" -- made obscenely-corrupt fortunes.