..ALOHIA RONNIE reviews MEL GIBSON - 'WE WERE SOLDIERS'.. on.. www.JudicialWatch.org

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[Issaquahking]

First movie that is big on my screen in a LONG time! I would like to sign the petition, but Alas, I signed quite some time back. Best of luck with the petition, And, THANK YOU for what you and many others,lots of who are not here now have done for OUR country!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...GOD Bless Your Heart, Issaquahking...

[MadelineZapeezda]

Bumped and signed!

[Conservative Vet]

another signature...

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

see post 63 and 64, 2 more signatures

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...That's just ...OUTSTANDING...!!!

[Lady GOP]

Am going to see it later this eve..thnx for the heads up!

[gatorbait]

Okay Ronnie, from a once and always 55D ,signature1695

[jackbill]

Check out Michelle Malkin's column today in the Washington Times:

Tribute to Rick Rescorla

[Churchillspirit]

What a beautiful post.

God bless you and all military, past and present.

[VOA]

My Free Republic Public Service Announement:
Go-See-This-Movie Bump!

I saw it Friday.
It hits all the notes, and hits them correctly.
One of the few times you will not begrudge the person in the box office the money you
had to pay for admission.

[.30Carbine]

I AM GOING TO SEE THIS MOVIE TOMORROW NIGHT!

(Can you tell I am a little excited?)

Thanks, ALOHA RONNIE, for all you do.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

Thanks Aloha Ronnie. We're going to see it again tonight, this time we're taking friends and family. :)

[BigBlueJon]

Just signed Tonk, Thanks.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Family -&- Friends to the Movies...

...That's just ..OUTSTANDING...!!!

...BRING HANKIES..

[Snow Bunny]

BUMP and thank you soooo much.

[LS]

I saw it today too. Very powerful, and the best Vietnam movie since "Siege of Fire Base Gloria." Both movies, however, I thought went overboard with the "humanizing" of the North Vietnamese enemy---which was fine in itself---but when you do this you never get a sense of why we were there.

IT WAS THE FAILURE, in fact, to DEMONIZE the enemy that lulled the American public into failing to take this war seriously . . . as a WAR. Lyndon Johnson NEVER made any speeches characterizing Ho Chi Minh as Hitler (the way Bush did with Hussein); there was no at-home propaganda effort to demonize the communists; and there was very little of a public relations offensive against the North itself as "evil."

NOTE THE DIFFERENCE with our current Commander in Chief, who has rightly noted that our enemies are "evil." Now, if the North Viets were not evil (I could ask, why did they leave heads on sticks outside villages?), then we should not have been there. But if it was important enough that we were there, then it should have been important enough to give our troops EVERY advantage, including psychological and propaganda.

To me, this is the most important element missing in both "Siege" and "We Were Soldiers." Everything else, in both movies, was powerful, moving, and realistic. But there has to be more of a reason to kill other men than just "we were fighting for each other." If that's the case, then there is no difference between us and the Somalis in "Black Hawk Down" or, hell, for that matter, the Nazis in "Saving Private Ryan." No, the fact is, we do fight for countries and ideas and patriotism and faith and right. And as Victor Hanson shows in his great new book, it is specifically THESE elements that make the "western way of war" different.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...Instead of the American People getting an Axis of Evil proclamation from our Preisdent about the Evil Communist North Vietnam...

...it got Liberal LIAR WALTER CRONKITE telling US they weren't every night on National TV.

...And a Evil lying North Vietnam telling us that not one single North Vietnamese Trooper was in the South.

Great Post, LS.

NEVER FORGET

[goldilucky]

Thanks for the tip, Ronnie. I'm not too crazy about watching Dan Blather but I will be watching it for the review.

[Terry Mross]

Accept this salute from an old Seabee. My only experience in Viet Nam was sitting on the tarmac in Saigon in a commerical airliner on my way to Diego Garcia. The pilot announced that the war would end at midnight that night. One old sargeant and a flight attendent applauded. By that time it seemed nobody cared. But now, thanks to Hal Moore and Joe Galloway and Mel Gibson and people like you, and I hate to say it but because of 9/11, you guys are finally getting your just respect as soldiers and patriots.

The other day my step daughter said that after 9/11 she's starting to realize how veterans are owed a debt of gratitude. I said, "You're welcome." She smiled and said, "Really, thank you." Made me proud.