there is a special place in hell reserved for that old bastard.
Posted on 02/26/2008 1:15:37 PM PST by Richard Poe
Just want to mention that the Johnson administration and its eggheads were a pathetic bunch as well. Think of all the “brilliant” minds who left that supposedly war-minded administration and emerged as total leftists and defeatists. They screwed everything up.
It is, thank you. I read it about 1982 and let someone borrow it...never got it back. I certainly recommend it.
And mine as well!
Great post!
Well, that's three of us!!
Everything you say is correct, except Nixon was guilty. The republicans in Congress abandoned him and I agreed with them at the time. Then we had the spectacle of what democrats do when their president commits criminal acts in plain view - they rally around him and turn the rule of law on its head. Also all rules of morality.
Nixon WAS guilty. He was trapped by the media and Dems through his own foolishness. Had he stepped up in early ‘74 and fired some people he would have had a terrible six weeks and then finished out his second term.
My point is...Nixon thought the old dodge of “national security” that FDR used with J Edgar Hoover to find out dirt on his enemies was still good...it wasn’t.
The rules changed without anybody telling Dick.
bump
To the far left in this country (that would include CBS, the Washington Post, the NY Times, large elements of the US Department of State, and elements within the CIA) Nixon was guilty of deeds far worse than covering up a break in of DNC headquarters at the Watergate hotel. He was guilty of helping that bastard Joe McCarthy. They never forgave him for that and Watergate was the pay back.
We have a DIA. The CIA has been proven useless and disloyal.
Time to disband it.
That, and redo the State Department.
Carl Oglesby
Thanks for the insight. ...very revealing.
You are EXACTLY right.
The rules haven't changed, they just don't apply to Democrats and haven't at least since that Commie Roosevelt.
all agreed and don’t forget they hated Nixon for prosecuting Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
I believe that would come under the broad heading of "helping McCarthy".
I think the climactic battles of the Cold War were fought within the CIA.
It was the CIA of the Washington Post vs. the CIA of Howard Hunt and the plumbers...left vs. right.
Nixon was the scapegoat.
I read this article and the last won you wrote. Where is the evidence that the CIA desired to lose the war in Vietnam? If there is any evidence to support this claim, please highlight it.
The only statement that is related to your claim in the most recent Vietnam article is this quote below.
“The CIA made a fateful choice. Rather than accept President Johnson’s decision, it resolved to stop him (regarding the Vietnam War).”
That appears to be your statement and assumption. Do you have any specific supporting evidence or rationale to make your claim. It’s a bold claim with no evidence in these two articles. If I’m mistaken I’ll be glad to read specific points.
there is a special place in hell reserved for that old bastard.
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“Another battle that lasted through and beyond Tet also deserves mention for what some perceived as a historical parallel. As James Griffiths, a veteran of the 11th Armored Cavalry, notes in his book “Vietnam Insights,” gloomy media depictions were not limited to the Saigon area but also occurred at the northern Marine base at Khe Sanh during Tet. Bob Young of ABC and Walter Cronkite of CBS linked the victorious general of Dien Bien Phu, Vo Nguyen Giap, to the siege at Khe Sanh, and Time put him on its cover. It was as if Giap’s presence would cause a Marine defeat at Khe Sanh to be a foregone conclusion. Newsweek jumped on the antiwar bandwagon with its March 18, 1968, issue. Using the Khe Sanh ammo dump explosion as its cover, it failed to let readers know that the incident had occurred two months earlier, concluding, “Though the U.S. dilemma at Khe Sanh is particularly acute, it is not unique. It simply reflects in microcosm the entire U.S. military position in Vietnam. U.S. strategy up to this point has been a failure.””
http://www.11thcavnam.com/education/americanlegion.htm
“What’s left unsaid is why the CIA would want to bring about a US defeat in Vietnam. ?”
It was and is still full of lefties - they took down Nixon and tried to get Bush, too.
Amen!
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