Posted on 08/22/2005 5:25:34 PM PDT by genefromjersey
Chuck Hagel is Partly Right , but…
Senator Chuck Hagel has been drawing favorable reviews from the “Mainstream Media” for a change - because the Nebraska Republican says Iraq has become another Vietnam ; and that we should just get out of there – the sooner the better.
I respect the Senator’s opinion. He is a combat veteran, and knows more about war than most of us would ever care to hear.
Moreover , he is voicing an increasingly popular sentiment . Most of us would like very much for this whole thing to be over : a sentiment that reminds me of the Vietnam era.
That’s where the Senator and I begin to part company !
Then – as now – there was a Media crusade to end the war. There were peace demonstrations that evolved into riots : sparked then – as they are now – by radical activists : whose “politely-overlooked” goal was the destruction of the United States via left-wing coup d’etat.
There was a group called “Weatherman” that set off bombs ,robbed banks, and killed people. There were assorted race-based groups that did just about anything they could to anybody they could – (and were hailed in the media as “crusaders for equality”).
There was a draft – and there were young people who had the financial resources , or the connections to evade it. Many crossed the border into Canada. One ( who became a US President ) managed to stay in England by joining and then resigning from a Reserve unit.
This meant the burden of fighting the war fell on the poor and powerless: Folks these same draft evaders professed to love.
There were super-annuated “students”, who took over college campuses – all across the country : making it nearly impossible for those who were real students –and who were busting their humps to pay college costs - to complete their schooling, and get on with their lives…again, to the delight of the Media.
In short, the 60’s and 70’s were VERY bad times ; and, at the end , we decided to “cut and run” : leaving the Vietnamese and Cambodians to their fate.
It was a very nasty fate , and it was duly documented by the Media – which decreed it was all OUR fault. We really shouldn’t have built their hopes for freedom up in the first place .
Is this what you have in mind for the people of Iraq, Senator Hagel ?
Should we cut and run to facilitate your re-election campaign ?
I'm a combat veteran, and I don't respect that opportunistic, back-stabbing piece of crap one bit. He is not partly right. He is completely a disgrace. < / rant >
Very nicely stated, genefromjersey.
rush did a great job today of ripping hagel's arguments to shreds
BTTT!
Bullsh*t Gene...stop being a sucker for what you read and see.
NAM was not lost over there by the grunt in country but by the elitest PUSSIES back home. We had two from that era, both were traitors one worse than the other.
I'll second what Coop said. Hagel is a back stabbing, opportunistic SOB.
Coop, as a wounded combat veteran, I echo your sentiments. That POS Hagel does not deserve to get away with politicizing this war for his sole benefit.
Veteran ?? So What? So was S'Kerry.
He is just an opportunist with his finger in the wind and his nose firmly up the MSM collective butt.
With people like him around, we will be doomed to repeat the past.
"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."
Hagel has turned into a perfumed prince who has noone to tell him when he is wrong. We have to vote him off the island after he spends a lot of money like Glenn did.
Tom Hayden on O'Reilly praised Sen. H for his stand. O'Reilly asked him to acknoledge the millions that died in Cambodia and Vietnam when we pulled out there and TH gulped and changed the subject.
I respect my cat's hacking up of a hair ball......
but I'll be damned if it's gonna be on the couch.
NOT TRUE. FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
FR thread from yesterday:
Rasmussen poll: 46% say NO to withdrawing troops; 39% say YES.
When you consider LIKEY VOTERS the 39% figure of NO drops to 1/3 or lower.
That's an indication of "increasingly popular?"
Don't think so.
And I suppose you think John Kerry and John McCain should be idolized since they probably "know more about war than most of us would ever care to hear". This is really a limp argument and I will continue to base my opinion on war from what I read, hear and see. I don't need someone who has seen war to stand in my place to form my opinion. I have been blessed with a brain that is meant to be used to form my own opinions.
"When you consider LIKEY VOTERS the 39% figure of NO drops to 1/3 or lower."
I meant 39% figure of YES.
then he should be the 1st to know about undermining his own troops.
, and knows more about war than most of us would ever care to hear
let me hear him tell how to WIN a war.... anything short of that, he can keep to himself
My son fought in this war, I guess that makes him more of an expert on Iraq than Hagel, and he doesn't agree with him.
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