A so-called worthless piece of $#it "news service" is attempting to attack the good name of Congressman Jack Murtha, Marine war hero. These chickenhawks have the gall to attack someone who has faced enemy fire in defense of our freedoms.
These people have the morals of hyenas; however, BUZZFLASH goes into more background on who and what's behind this unwarranted attack. Thanks to Jeannette Warren for letting me know about this!
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Unwarranted? You must be kidding.
Besides, he served in Vietnam, man. That was a bad war and we all know the soldiers there shot babies, burned villages, dumped napalm on innocents, made the local women prostitutes, etc. so how "heroic" can anyone from then be?
Jeez, Stephen, war is bad and the people who make it are bad. OK?
Oh, yeah, what freedom was he defending in Vietnam? The freedom of America to interfere in the internal politics of another, sovereign, nation in our unjust fight against the communist revolution? Isn't that the same wrong we're committing in Iraq today, trading "faith tradition" for "communism?"
He's making the same wrong today we made then: upending a nation then, when the going turns tough, bugging out and leaving them to deal with it. In Vietnam that led to tens of thousands of deaths and misery for all except the elite; in Cambodia it led to Pol Pot. You remember him, right? Two or three million countrymen dead. You suggesting we should be doing that today in Iraq?
I'm going to go you one better, Mike, I freely admit it was LBJ who got us into that quagmire, and it damn near destroyed the country and the Democratic Party.
I don't blame the soldiers, though, Mike, I blame the leaders who sent them there unnecessarily.
In Vietnam, it was Johnson; in Iraq, it was Bush. In the end, there wasn't any difference....
"In the end, there wasn't any difference...." Your bipartisanship is refreshing to hear. It is true that both sides basically act the same, but under different banners.
BTW, it was Kennedy who got us into Vietnam; Johnson just made it much, much worse.
Technically speaking, Truman initiated the policies that culminated both globally and individually in the Vietnam War. Whatever the case, Murtha served with distinction while both the current occupant and Bill Clinton found ways to avoid doing so. If I had been of age then, I honestly don't know what I would have done. I would have not served for any sense of keeping the Communist domino from falling toward San Francisco, although very, very few folks in the sixties understood Communism as anything other than monolithic. Conversely, the North Vietnamese played for keeps and were going to fight until they won, which made most of our fighting folks cannon fodder. I just don't know what I would have done.
That also being said, for anyone to criticize Jack Murtha or anyone else who fought in Vietnam (like two of my cousins) is to reveal more about themselves than it is those in uniform. My Lai was certainly our doing. The North Vietnamese were known to torture as well (ask John McCain). No one's hands were clean in that or any other war. Vietnam's greatest legacy for America, however, I think can be summed up in the words of Richard Reeves, given in a speech regarding the Kennedy Presidency: Vietnam took away our moral authority in the world. What we had re-gained in the years since, sadly, has been lost again in spades by the actions of the current administration and their complete idiocy in Iraq.
The real story here is that fake "news service". It is run by Marc Morano, a suck up wanna be Rush, and who worked on his staff for years. The contributing "reporter" actually works for www.crosswalk.com, under the name Monisha Bansal. This type of bogus new sites are popping up everywhere, and many times are propped up by groups purporting to advance a "Christian" agenda. This is a problem, because often these front groups pay for access to huge databases of Christian email addresses, and the sheep think they are getting the real stories. I have no idea how to combat this...yet.
When opposing counsel has something to hide in the discovery process, he usually buries it under mountains of information not asked for....just sayin.
Everyone should go read EJ Dionne in the Washington Post today, he drills it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600913.html
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