President McCain's predicts eventual victory in Vietnam.
After taking the oath of office, President McCain used the bulk of his Inaugural Address to discuss America's eventual victory in Vietnam.
Here are a few excerpts.
(Some parts made up, some pilfered and slightly amended from this speech and subsequent commentary here)
"My friends, The Vietnam has been long and it's been hard and it's been tough, and it was mishandled for a long period of time. I spoke strongly against theRumsfeldMcNamara strategy, and I spoke strongly for this strategy that's succeeding.
"As I wrote in my memoir many years ago, I resented from the beginning how badly civilian leaders had mismanaged the war and how ineffectually senior military commanders had resisted.
"Which is why I trust in our military commanders on the ground in Saigon. It is their recommendations which should dictate when we withdraw troops, not some politician who is seeking higher office, or some dirty fucking hippy who hates America and wants an inexorable tide of Communism to sweep the globe.
"The military should run the war, my friends, as they should of course also run all aspects of society which relate to the Global War Against All Bad Things. Such as the judiciary. Our efficient and profitable worldwide chain of secret McPrison franchises. Our fleet of cheerfully-painted interrogation-mobiles that criss-cross the country. The Ministry of Information. The extremely humane and cost-effective use of nuclear deterrent against certain, intractable enemy strongholds and allies.
"We had problems with these matters early on in the War Against All Bad Things, where civilians tried to interfere, and it was obviously a very big mistake.
"We're not going to win this war overnight, my friends, and it's going to be a long haul. But in this 50th anniversary year of America's first glorious efforts to help liberate the people of Vietnam from Communist aggression, both Vice President Lieberman and myself strongly believe that the signs are very hopeful, that victory has never been closer and that the 300,000 brave Americans who have given their lives to spread Democracy to the tiny country of Vietnam have will not have been in vain."
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11 comments:
Sheesh! That gave me chills.
I've noticed some commenters on various blogs like to take Baby Boomers to task for the screwed up world they inherited.
Children, you shoulda seen it before!
Here's a somewhat more accurate assessment of what is taking place in Basra and Baghdad, than we're getting from goatboy and his minions:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3631718.ece
It the link isn't clickable, go to AW.Com (big hat tip...) and scroll down to the "Areas of Baghdad fall to Militias..." link.
Trust me, it's worth the trouble.
The militias:
In Baghdad, have kidnapped the chief Iraqi co-spokesman for bushCo's
"5 0'Clock-follies-redux"; killed his three bodyguards; and burned his house.
They are ordering the police out of their stations and checkpoints, with little or no resistance. Not surprisingly, some of the police are joining them.
In Basra, they have blown up one of the two largest oil pipelines used for transporting oil, cutting production by a third.
And, of course the green zone is gaining cachet as the world's most expensing mortar-and-rocket training range.
So far, the Brits, much to their credit, seem to have decided that getting more of their troops killed going house-to-house in Basra, to protect george bush's legacy, and John McCain's political ass, is not worth it.
Hard to tell what's going to come of this, but since bush has been praising Maliki for his "bold" move in trying to crack down on the Mahdis, and if the "government forces" continue to collapse, junior may have to wait a decent interval if he decides to drop the fig-leaf of democracy from the chancre-covered priapus of petro-occupation, and take everything back to square one with a new sockpuppet. And, who is he going to install?
Chalabi? Allawi?
Chalabi couldn't win a seat in the purple-fingered ecstasy, to get in as Baghdad dogcatcher.
And, Allawi is cordially hated by most Shiites.
Gordon Brown has to be thinking about the logistics of moving 4200 troops out of the Basra Airport. Preferably, while the highway to Kuwait is still open.
Anybody heard anything about Britney's rehab?
And don't forget about the baby down the well, TB.
Love the photoshop, Drifty, and yeah, VP Lieberman? I won't sleep for days now. geesh.
I think I'm in love with Tanbark.
Thanks for the heads-up, friend.
I've been saying this for (seems now like) ever. Except I think they've been waiting for just such a propitious moment to start the neverending rain of bombs on both Iraq and Iran. At least they won't have to worry about getting the last letter wrong anymore.
Suzan
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That shit is too fucking true to be funny.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12596
From AW.com, wherin Raimondo makes the case that all Shia's are Iranian borne, other than Sadr, who is a Shia Iraqi Nationalist.
I buy all that, jives with what I've read.
Al Sistani is Iran born and bred.
Al Hakim is Iranian based, with his Badr backing, all borne of the Iranian based and backed SIIC, formerly SCIRI, and now mislabeled by the Western Media as IAX (Raimondo himself misuses the acronym in his post:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12596
Here's a Wiki to sort SOME of it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council_for_the_Islamic_Revolution_in_Iraq
Anyhoots, Al Maliki, bless his heart, is Da'wa, and that's Iranian SIIC based.
So, we invaded Iraq, booted the Sunni Hussein.
Then we didn't let the Baathists back in the developing madness, instead hoping we'd get OUR Shia guys, Chalabi and Allawi.
But THEY were blocked by OTHER Shia's, loyal to Iran. And of course, Chalabi and Allawi were both Iranian stooges Shia wise, from the get go, albeit factions of stooges amongst it all.
N now we are paying them all NOT to attack us, but we went in after Al Sadr's Mahdi 'rogues', and woke up THAT lion, who is the ONLY really nationalist based Iraqi's in the bunch.
Raimondo goes on to point it, it would seem we went in to destroy Iraq, splinter it up, and create the civil war that IS going on.
He also points out, Isreal and Iran have LONG been united against Saddam Hussein.
So he wraps up by saying, we went in, to blow up Iraq, to make Iran safer, and give Iran an INROAD to a piece of Iraq.
So, what's all the hoo doo, about the doodoo, of Iran being a threat to Isreal, developing nukes, and a terrible enemy?
NONE of this adds up, unless USA and Isreal are as good at the ME game as the indigineous folks.
And that line speaks of keeping your friends close, and your enemies closer.
And in the process, you create a hell where your opponents kill themselves off, so you don't have to.
And still, we've failed at ALL these things, given the cost of what it's done to our economy.
Oh wait, we are also part of the chaos. Keep the homeland displaced, broke, and un united, and the funnel of the wealth and property continues upwards.
And that, my Driftmeisters, is how this all ties together.
Blow it all up, consolidate it all upwards.
At home, and abroad.
That's Larue's Bottom March Madness Line.
Stanford's out, UCLA's still in, with the best freshman hoops player in history.
As to the rest?
'Kin Harumph.
I heard Brittney might sing again, too, Tan.
*G*
My bad above, where Raimondo mislabels SIIC for ISCI, not the typo I made of IAX . . . .
Nicely put, Larue.
And that, my Driftmeisters, is how this all ties together.
Blow it all up, consolidate it all upwards.
At home, and abroad.
That's Larue's Bottom March Madness Line.
Stanford's out, UCLA's still in, with the best freshman hoops player in history.
As to the rest?
Carolina (UNC) is No. 1!
GO TAR HEELS!!!!
Suzan
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Kevin Love IS great, but Hansbrough is incredible. And, he's got better help. :o)
This blog is hilarious! And I thought I was the only one living in Wonderland.
You ain't seen nothing yet!!!!
GO TAR HEELS!!!!
but Hansbrough is incredible.
Suzan
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