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Betty
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Date Posted: 11:13:59 04/15/04 Thu
In reply to:
Betty
's message, "Iraq=Vietnam... I told you so!" on 10:34:35 04/15/04 Thu
George Bush's performance at the press conference held Tuesday night, referring to Bush's use of phrases like "stay the course" & "we will not waver," are "slogans of perseverance." Assurances from Bush are nothing more than this. The Americans have suffered more losses in April than in any month since the supposed end of the Iraq war. The majority of coalition countries maintain that they're standing firm, but actually, their troops are hiding in their bases & letting the United States conduct its war of occupation alone.
Bush's speech a "document of political helplessness" & Bush's platitudes & slogans of perseverance are an attempt to dissipate the growing fear among Americans that the Iraq War is developing into a Vietnam-style debacle.
The Vietnam analogy is slightly inaccurate. Anyone referring to Vietnam with the benefit of hindsight is thinking primarily of the way the war ended. It reminds us that that the war was at first allowed to escalate unhindered by media criticism or domestic protests. The U.S. procrastinated for years before making the ultimately unavoidable withdrawal from Vietnam. Nonetheless, there is something to be learned from that period in history: "Once again, we're seeing an American president resorting to slogans of perseverance."
Bush offered no new plans or arguments. Bush answered critical questions with stock phrases, sometimes just with helpless incomprehension. But to be fair, there's not much that Bush can do right now other than to "stay the course" in Iraq." Any hopes that NATO or the United Nations could suddenly be won over and provide strong support have been dashed in the bloody chaos that’s erupted from Falluja to Najaf. Even Bush's little coalition of the willing is crumbling, because more and more governments are beginning to suspect that they've sided with a loser. That doesn't leave Bush much choice other than to employ strong rhetoric & try to stabilize the situation in Iraq by himself. The shallowness of Bush's are a reflection of the serious of the situation.
Ideally, we shouldn't have gone to war there. Far better results had been working through negotiations & working with the international community before the war, & would have continued to be better than what we're stuck in now in the long run. Negotiations may have even prevented the chance of WWIII... now a very real threat, not Saddam.
If everyone would have listened to us before the war all this crap could have been avoided... but no, the dumb masses just stood there believing & obeying everything they were told, reciting, "we love you Booosh!"
Too late to changed the past, but I hope y'all learned your lessons that you should've learned in Vietnam. I pray history don't repeat itself just because everyone keeps forgetting.
Yep, I'll get flamed for this post. But look at my friends & my posts in this thread that I posted a long time ago. Everything I warned about & predicted in the old posts has come true!!! Call me a fool, say I'm wrong, but these posts were made before the fact... not by psychic hocus pocus, but by common sense.
Question authority. Don't believe everything your told.
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