Posted on 01/03/2007 3:25:59 PM PST by kellynla
Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff. Also, Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped Ford's funeral.
The passing of Gerald Ford should remind Americans that Democrats are always lying in wait, ready to force a humiliating defeat on America.
More troops, fewer troops, different troops, "redeployment" — all the Democrats' peculiar little talking points are just a way of sounding busy. Who are they kidding? Democrats want to cut and run as fast as possible from Iraq, betraying the Iraqis who supported us and rewarding our enemies — exactly as they did to the South Vietnamese under Ford.
Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat, a tradition they have brought back for the Iraq war.
They insisted on calling the Soviet-backed Vietcong "the National Liberation Front of Vietnam," just as they call Islamic fascists killing Americans in Iraq "insurgents." Ho Chi Minh was hailed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat," just as Michael Moore compares the Islamic fascists in Iraq to the Minute Men.
During the Vietnam War, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger told his father that if an American soldier ran into a North Vietnamese soldier, he would prefer for the American to get shot. "It's the other guy's country," he explained.
Now, as publisher of the Times, Pinch does all he can to help the enemy currently shooting at American soldiers.
After a half-dozen years of Democrat presidents creating a looming disaster in Vietnam — with Kennedy ordering the assassination of our own ally in the middle of the war and Johnson ham-handedly choosing bombing targets from the Oval Office — in 1969, Nixon became president and the world was safe again.
Nixon began a phased withdrawal of American ground troops, while protecting the South Vietnamese by increasing the bombings of the North, mining North Vietnamese harbors and attacking North Vietnamese military supplies in Cambodia — all actions hysterically denounced by American liberals, eager for the communists to defeat America.
Despite the massive anti-war protests staged by the Worst Generation, their takeovers of university buildings and their bombings of federal property to protest the bombing of North Vietnamese property, Nixon's Vietnam policy was apparently popular with normal Americans. In 1972, he won re-election against "peace" candidate George McGovern in a 49-state landslide.
In January 1973, the United States signed the Paris Peace accords, which would have ended the war with honor. In order to achieve a ceasefire, Nixon jammed lousy terms down South Vietnam's throat, such as allowing Vietcong troops to remain in the South. But in return, we promised South Vietnam that we would resume bombing missions and provide military aid if the North attacked.
It would have worked, but the Democrats were desperate for America to lose. They invented "Watergate," the corpus delicti of which wouldn't have merited three column-inches during the Clinton years, and hounded Nixon out of office. (How's Sandy Berger weathering that tough wrist-slap?)
Three months after Nixon was gone, we got the Watergate Congress and with it, the new Democratic Party. In lieu of the old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.
Just one month after the Watergate Congress was elected, North Vietnam attacked the South.
Even milquetoast, pro-abortion, detente-loving Gerald R. Ford knew America had to defend South Vietnam or America's word would be worth nothing. As Ford said, "American unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives could seriously affect our credibility throughout the world as an ally." He pleaded repeatedly with the Democratic Congress simply to authorize aid to South Vietnam — no troops, just money.
But the Democrats turned their backs on South Vietnam, betrayed an ally and trashed America's word. Within a month of Ford's last appeal to Congress to help South Vietnam, Saigon fell.
The entire world watched as American personnel desperately scrambled into helicopters from embassy rooftops in Saigon while beating back our own allies, to whom we could offer no means of escape. It was the most demeaning image of America ever witnessed, until Britney Spears came along.
Southeast Asia was promptly consumed in a maelstrom of violence that seems to occur whenever these "Jeffersonian Democrats" come to power. Communist totalitarians swept through Laos, Cambodia and all of Vietnam. They staged gruesome massacres so vast that none other than Sen. George McGovern called for military intervention to stop a "clear case of genocide" in Cambodia.
Five years after that, Islamic lunatics in Iran felt no compunction about storming the embassy of what was once the greatest superpower on Earth and taking American citizens hostage for 14 months. To this day, al-Qaida boosts the flagging morale of its jihadists by reminding them of America's humiliating retreat from Vietnam.
In addition to being wrong about Ford's pardon of Nixon, liberals were wrong about a few other things from that era. Democrats haven't admitted error in rejecting Ford's pleas on behalf of South Vietnam because there are still dangerous foreigners trying to kill Americans. Nixon is safely interred in the ground, but the enemies of America continue to need the Democrats' help.
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Dems are kind toward themselves and members of their own party. Other than that they're often mean-spirited, vengeful types.
Yes, you're right.
Ford was a "place holder" president. An Eisenhower Republican. These "don't rock the boat" Republicans were horrified at the ascendancy of the tough talking plain speaking Goldwater/Reagan Republicans. They seemed to be content in their minority status. Accepting the Democrat's agenda but just 10% less.
Love the collage. Hooray for the Coulter babe!!
Really....
Anyone complaining about Reid skipping Ford's funeral is making an idiotic statement at this point. The vast majority of Republicans skipped the funeral in the Rotunda as well, and Reid did make it to services yesterday.
But what are facts?
Look man, I have no need to fight with you. Who could possibly defend the deaths of innocent people? Were you alive back then? And if so, were you in your majority? Have you any clue of the power the anti-war movement had in this country? Seriously, you're misplacing your anger. JFK and LBJ were by far the responsible parties in the Vietnam debacle.
It sure is going to be an uphill battle. Rangle has already used the term impeachment today in an interview. Of course any sane demorat with any concience may tune the goon out. I at least hope so. Time will tell.
Whats a hermaphrodite?
A hermaphrodite is a person who has both male and female reproductive organs.
It's a disgusting insult.
Wow that's not a very nice thing to call someone Tanks
She used to have a job doing this:
And it wasn't all that long ago!
Maybe a Republican with breasticles will tell Rangle to STFU.
I have read of this, and it is bizarre. Exactly what McGovern was thinking here I have no idea, since he had spent years working for a complete American withdrawal from Vietnam.
An excellent review of recent history. There was a lot of revisionist history reported with Ford's funeral.
Well it turned out that McGovern's pals in the NVA were the ones who eventually did intervene militarily in Cambodia.
Thank you for telling that story. We must not let it happen again.
That's true. When you are too off the chain for the NVA, things have really got out of hand.
That isn't how Korea came to be split: in August of 1945, Russian forces entered the peninsula from the north and American forces landed in the south. They milled around for several months before a relatively low-level FSO in the State Dep't (Dean Rusk, BTW) suggested that a temporary demarcation between the Russian and American occupation zones might be roughly in the middle, e.g., the 38th Parallel. Stalin agreed, and installed Li'l Kim's father as his Viceroy.
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