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	<title>Comments on: Vietnam: A War Not Lost But Forsaken</title>
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		<title>By: 10-29-10 Under the Liberty Tree :: Under The Liberty Tree &#124; 2 minutes about freedom</title>
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		<dc:creator>10-29-10 Under the Liberty Tree :: Under The Liberty Tree &#124; 2 minutes about freedom</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] Johnson, upon hearing that Walter Cronkite, (aka “the most trusted man in America”) decided (incorrectly I might ad) that the war in Vietnam was lost and we should pull out, remarked to an aide, “If [...]</description>
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		<title>By: rdman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THE REAL EVIL-DOERS

Forty+ years ago, my generation volunteered to serve our country in Viet Nam. Fifty-eight thousand (58,000+) of us died and thousands more remain permanently disabled as a direct result of the appeasing, placating government lawyers/politicians who were more concerned with pacifying the Berkeley SDS goons, Marxists and anarchists, and the communist suppliers of war materiel to North Viet Nam.

With our hands tied during mortal combat operations and despite government malfeasance and their willing media accomplices, our magnificent young military men never lost a battle. Contrary to media propaganda, we defeated the Communists during the TET offensive. The North Vietnamese were ready to give up until the most trusted man in America, Uncle Walter announced that we could not win the war. That one statement energized the Leftist Radical Rats in gulags like Berkeley, which in turn reenergized the North Vietnamese Communists.

In primitive tent hospitals with dirt floors, while the valiant and incredible humanity of our military nurses cared for our wounded and gave comfort to our dying, the cowardly lawyer-politicians in the hallowed marble halls of our Congress and our Whitehouse caved to political expediency and cut-off funds and support. We died in vain and those who survived continue to suffer in vain. 
 
Millions more were slaughtered in the killing fields of Cambodia, Laos and Uncle Ho’s “reeducation” gulags in South Viet Nam by the power vacuum caused by criminal negligence of the government class of that era. These government cowards with law degrees and their media accomplices will forever live and die with the blood of our nation’s treasures on their hands. 

Today, the latest generation of vacuous appeasers, placators and consensus seekers, in their unbridled and unprincipled pursuit for power and control, continue their perverted and shameless tradition of emasculating and viciously attacking our military during a time of military conflict.

In the face of this despicable conduct, 150,000+/- of our magnificent young military men and women struggle in the Middle East under absurd politically expedient limitations that are reminiscent of the mortal combat conditions imposed during the Viet Nam conflict. This is an incomprehensible criminality of the worst order, beyond spoken words!

The root cause falls at the feet of the “Good Old Boy’s Esquire Club” that makes up 94% of the current US Congress and Whitehouse. These leftist gangsters and community organizers with law degrees turned career politicians have become old despotic, corrupt, menopausal tyrants who believe they are a law unto themselves, cynically living in the world of realpolitik.  What matters is to prevail… Expediency is All.
 
Conscience, Dignity, Integrity, Leadership, Statesmanship, Public Service and the Lessons of History are totally absent within the Government Class. The Founding Fathers and millions of veterans killed in action must certainly be turning in their graves. Our magnificent Constitution, our magnificent Country and We, the People are in mortal danger.

Centuries of history have clearly documented that appeasement, placating, political correctness, expediency, compromise and consensus-seeking is simply the Absence of Leadership, Statesmanship and Honor. The great General George Patton profoundly stated when men were men, “The lowest form of life is a politician. The lowest form of a politician is a liberal democrat (with an Ivy League law degree).”

The real evil-doers will be held to account by We, the People. Eliminate the Washington DC snake-pit of entrenched appeasing, expedient, placating and crab-walking despots by voting these delusional, parasitic, megalomaniac realpolitiks out of government… they are not worthy to represent We, The People of this magnificent Country. They are, in fact, a scourge upon the land.

Robert D.
American Citizen Taxpayer
Retired Free Market Corporate Executive
Reagan Conservative
Viet Nam Combat Veteran 1965-1966</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE REAL EVIL-DOERS</p>
<p>Forty+ years ago, my generation volunteered to serve our country in Viet Nam. Fifty-eight thousand (58,000+) of us died and thousands more remain permanently disabled as a direct result of the appeasing, placating government lawyers/politicians who were more concerned with pacifying the Berkeley SDS goons, Marxists and anarchists, and the communist suppliers of war materiel to North Viet Nam.</p>
<p>With our hands tied during mortal combat operations and despite government malfeasance and their willing media accomplices, our magnificent young military men never lost a battle. Contrary to media propaganda, we defeated the Communists during the TET offensive. The North Vietnamese were ready to give up until the most trusted man in America, Uncle Walter announced that we could not win the war. That one statement energized the Leftist Radical Rats in gulags like Berkeley, which in turn reenergized the North Vietnamese Communists.</p>
<p>In primitive tent hospitals with dirt floors, while the valiant and incredible humanity of our military nurses cared for our wounded and gave comfort to our dying, the cowardly lawyer-politicians in the hallowed marble halls of our Congress and our Whitehouse caved to political expediency and cut-off funds and support. We died in vain and those who survived continue to suffer in vain. </p>
<p>Millions more were slaughtered in the killing fields of Cambodia, Laos and Uncle Ho’s “reeducation” gulags in South Viet Nam by the power vacuum caused by criminal negligence of the government class of that era. These government cowards with law degrees and their media accomplices will forever live and die with the blood of our nation’s treasures on their hands. </p>
<p>Today, the latest generation of vacuous appeasers, placators and consensus seekers, in their unbridled and unprincipled pursuit for power and control, continue their perverted and shameless tradition of emasculating and viciously attacking our military during a time of military conflict.</p>
<p>In the face of this despicable conduct, 150,000+/- of our magnificent young military men and women struggle in the Middle East under absurd politically expedient limitations that are reminiscent of the mortal combat conditions imposed during the Viet Nam conflict. This is an incomprehensible criminality of the worst order, beyond spoken words!</p>
<p>The root cause falls at the feet of the “Good Old Boy’s Esquire Club” that makes up 94% of the current US Congress and Whitehouse. These leftist gangsters and community organizers with law degrees turned career politicians have become old despotic, corrupt, menopausal tyrants who believe they are a law unto themselves, cynically living in the world of realpolitik.  What matters is to prevail… Expediency is All.</p>
<p>Conscience, Dignity, Integrity, Leadership, Statesmanship, Public Service and the Lessons of History are totally absent within the Government Class. The Founding Fathers and millions of veterans killed in action must certainly be turning in their graves. Our magnificent Constitution, our magnificent Country and We, the People are in mortal danger.</p>
<p>Centuries of history have clearly documented that appeasement, placating, political correctness, expediency, compromise and consensus-seeking is simply the Absence of Leadership, Statesmanship and Honor. The great General George Patton profoundly stated when men were men, “The lowest form of life is a politician. The lowest form of a politician is a liberal democrat (with an Ivy League law degree).”</p>
<p>The real evil-doers will be held to account by We, the People. Eliminate the Washington DC snake-pit of entrenched appeasing, expedient, placating and crab-walking despots by voting these delusional, parasitic, megalomaniac realpolitiks out of government… they are not worthy to represent We, The People of this magnificent Country. They are, in fact, a scourge upon the land.</p>
<p>Robert D.<br />
American Citizen Taxpayer<br />
Retired Free Market Corporate Executive<br />
Reagan Conservative<br />
Viet Nam Combat Veteran 1965-1966</p>
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		<title>By: Mickey G</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mickey G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember the rules of engagement?  SAM sites next to &quot;shrines&quot; were inviolate.  By the way the concept of limited warfare came from Eisenhower the best supply sergeant the army ever had.

I knew when I returned from Viet Nam in 1966 that all was lost.  The propaganda (read that as media) showed protestors as heros and GIs as clods, uneducated, and brutal.  I made the mistake of wearing class As on a trip home and these valiant protestors put their hands on me.  Nuff said, the focus of the media said it all create a loss from a victory.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember the rules of engagement?  SAM sites next to &#8220;shrines&#8221; were inviolate.  By the way the concept of limited warfare came from Eisenhower the best supply sergeant the army ever had.</p>
<p>I knew when I returned from Viet Nam in 1966 that all was lost.  The propaganda (read that as media) showed protestors as heros and GIs as clods, uneducated, and brutal.  I made the mistake of wearing class As on a trip home and these valiant protestors put their hands on me.  Nuff said, the focus of the media said it all create a loss from a victory.</p>
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