 Replaying Vietnam By Michael Reagan June 01, 2006
That's no accident. The crazed American left in and out of the media is trying to accomplish in Iraq what they accomplished in Vietnam a shameful American defeat wrested from the jaws of victory. Make no mistake about it, these traitorous anti-war zealots are salivating over the possibility that they can exploit whatever happened in Haditha last November just as they exploited the My Lai massacre and thousands of G.I. deaths in Vietnam. Without any real knowledge of the Nov. 19 deaths of 24 civilians and the role if any played in the killings by United States Marines, the despicable Democrat Rep. John Murtha is charging that members of the Marine Corps killed those civilians in cold blood. The media is whooping and hollering over Murtha's accusations, showcasing him on radio and TV broadcasts and egging him on, something scarcely needed since he's been all too anxious to clutter up the air waves with his egomaniacal blatherings. This is all a matter of déjà vu to those of us who remember what happened in Vietnam, and how the same media now ranting and raving about Haditha helped drive us from Vietnam - where we were winning - an outcome that cost the lives of over a million Vietnamese and Cambodians. Central to the attempt to drive us out of Vietnam were the phony atrocity stories peddled by the likes of Jane Fonda and John Kerry and the story of My Lai where somewhere between 300 and 500 Vietnamese villagers were butchered by an out-of-control U.S. Army unit a real atrocity that bolstered Kerry's phony accounts of American misbehavior in battle. In Vietnam, the Left learned their lesson well and they are now applying it to Iraq, where they hope to obtain similar results the mightiest nation on the face of the earth cutting and running from a conflict against a ragtag foe we are slowly and painfully winning. The worst aspect of this treasonous activity is the motive behind much of the anti-war hysteria an insane hatred of George W. Bush and the overwhelming lust of the Democrats to regain control of Capitol Hill no matter what it costs the United States of America in blood and treasure. Don't make any mistake about it that exactly what is driving John Murtha this war's John Kerry and his conscienceless colleagues. They didn't give a doodly damn that their part in causing the U.S. to bug out of Vietnam caused over 58,000 of our fellow Americans to have died in vain. And today they couldn't care less if the grieving survivors moms, dads, wives and children of the soldiers and Marines who laid down their lives in Iraq have to face the possibility that their loved ones' deaths were meaningless. What these modern-day Benedict Arnolds are attempting to do is the recreate the shameful spectacle of battle-scarred veterans coming home from Vietnam to be cursed and spat at and called baby killers by the very people they risked their lives to serve. Their crocodile tears over the killings in Haditha - which may or may not have been justified by the exigencies of combat - masks their delight that they may now have a new My Lai. Never mind that My Lai costs hundreds of deaths while in Haditha just 24 people died in what may have been the heat of battle. With the enthusiastic cooperation of the media the two incidents are compared to sap the morale of the American people to the point where they will accept a shameful defeat and leave the people of Iraq to the same kind of tender mercies shown to the betrayed people of Vietnam and Cambodia. I want to tell the veterans of Vietnam that this is what they did to you and this is what John Murtha and the rest of the traitorous left are now trying to do to the brave men and women in Iraq. They want to turn their image into that of baby killers. You should be the ones marching in the streets against the left and John Murtha and his slimy friends. You must not allow what happened to you happen to the men and women in Iraq.
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