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RV

I’m a Vietnam Era vet and it was the lefties who did us wrong in this country. Back in those days, the MSM did not have any other competition and being mostly liberals themselves, they were one sided in their reporting. Also, the lefties of Hollywood did their best to vilify Vietnam veterans, portraying us as psychopaths and mental defectives.

There is no draft anymore, there hasn’t been one in 35 years. We have a volunteer force. Nobody is being forced to serve. I personally support the actions that our CiC took in routing our sworn enemies, who’ve been attacking us for 39 years. Senator Joe Lieberman explains things well in a recent article, “Democrats and Our Enemies”. Here’s an excerpt:

The attack on America by Islamist terrorists shook President Bush from the foreign policy course he was on. He saw September 11 for what it was: a direct ideological and military attack on us and our way of life. If the Democratic Party had stayed where it was in 2000, America could have confronted the terrorists with unity and strength in the years after 9/11.

Instead a debate soon began within the Democratic Party about how to respond to Mr. Bush. I felt strongly that Democrats should embrace the basic framework the president had advanced for the war on terror as our own, because it was our own. But that was not the choice most Democratic leaders made. When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy – not bin Laden, but Mr. Bush – activists have successfully pulled the Democratic Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 years.

Dick Cheney addressed the graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy today, and of course, vigorously invoked September 11, 2001. He’s got nothin else. All these soldier are dying “for September 11″ and “to fight terrorism”. It’s rhetoric. It’s bullsh*t. Who is winning? Exxon is doing quite well. What would a victory actually “look like” ? Cheney was interviewed April 1994, and was asked about why, when Bush the elder was in office, did they not “get rid ” of Saddam Hussein. His response was, (paraphrased) that it would be a quagmire. See for yourself what he said. He had it exactly right, he predicted exactly what we have now. So why was he an architect of this war?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

I expect if anyone reads this they will jump all over me about how this is about Ms. Dague and isnt’ a platform for some anti war nut. Well, she’s a young lady who lost both of her arms serving her country in a war that the Vice President knew exactly what would happen if we engaged in it.

There shouldn’t be all these new injured veterans to counsel. Where will they all be in 20 years? Ask the Vietnam vets if this country has done right by them. Crazy

God Bless her!

I will have another account of the strength, courage and dedication of our women in the Armed Forces posted here in a few days.