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Skriven 2007-01-05 13:07:00 av JIM HOLSONBACK
Ärende: Ann Coulter's latest
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Hello, All.

Early on, liberals started trying to paint the war in Iraq as "just like
VietNam."  It seems to me that is just what they are trying to make it.

Here's the latest piece by the "reigning diva of the hysterical right".
Sometimes she goes a bit far with the hyperboles, but I think a lot of
the below is "spot on."

- - -  JimH.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A VAST SLEEPER CELL
by Ann Coulter   January 3, 2007

-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 woul 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. The 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 th 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.

-COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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