Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Bush says Vietnam should serve as lesson against early withdrawal?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU
 
Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:25 AM
Original message
Bush says Vietnam should serve as lesson against early withdrawal?
On CNN this morning.

We know he doesn't believe in science, now it appears he doesn't believe in history either.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:26 AM
Response to Original message
1. His own history is just a blur to him
and there is a lesson there too, about mental health or lack there of.

Awareness is not a common thing, evidently.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
wholetruth00 Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:11 AM
Response to Reply #1
26. He's right. Had we exited sooner maybe 30,000 US lives would have been spared?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DrDebug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:28 AM
Response to Original message
2. Why doesn't he stay there and fight the Vietnamese then?
Time to make up for all those months he spend drinking with James Bath
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
O.M.B.inOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:06 AM
Response to Reply #2
22. LOL! I snarfed my coffee all over my keyboard.
You owe me $29 for the keyboard, and possibly my copayment at the eye, ear, and coffee-in-the-nose specialist, too.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:29 AM
Response to Original message
3. Yup, I believe the term is "premature Iraqitization"

But bushco is done fuckin everybody... there is more contracts to be had!
:sarcasm:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:29 AM
Response to Original message
4. I wonder how proud Yale and Harvard are of THIS graduate.
What a thinker. Truly, one of a kind.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:36 AM
Response to Reply #4
11. Pride has nothing to do with it
They got cash and that's what mattered the most.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:29 AM
Response to Original message
5. So, is he saying we should stay in Iraq for 10 years, til 58,000 soldiers are dead
and there's a final, desperate evacuation by helicopter off the roof of the embassy in Baghdad? Well, there's his exit strategy. Of course, his own exit strategy for Vietnam was just a bit different.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:37 AM
Response to Reply #5
12. Let's not forget
The estimated 2,000,000 Vietnamese that died as well.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
O.M.B.inOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:08 AM
Response to Reply #12
24. Good point. Maybe Laura has an idea for a war memorial, but it has to be bigger than 3000 names.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:30 AM
Response to Original message
6. First of all WE DIDN'T do and EARLY WITHDRAWAL from Nam
and when we finally did over 60000 Americans were dead
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:30 AM
Response to Original message
7. How would he know? He never went in?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:32 AM
Response to Original message
8. That's a message to his base not to rational people
His base believes that we could have one in vietnam if we had just stayed and fought a little longer.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:34 AM
Response to Original message
9. and perhaps New Orleans will be the lesson of Pissy Pants early withdrawl!!
hey pissy pants how about cities in ruin in our own country where parts of those cities have never been searched for the dead you caused by negligence??????????


oh and pissy pants..how about your early withdrawl from the great "wars in Arkansas and Texas?????????????"

you fucking asshole moron!!

Maybe pissy pants if you read a damn history book on the Gulf of Tonkin..you would know little fuck head..that Vietnam was another war we were lied into..and that big black wall in Washington...bet you never knew one person who's name is engraved there!!

you pissant mother fucker!

fly
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:35 AM
Response to Original message
10. Not only the idiocy of the statement to us Americans...
... but isn't he over there right now essentially saying "We should have stayed until we killed you all" to the people he is trying to open trade with?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:39 AM
Response to Original message
13. Why didn't this idiots daddy believe in early withdrawal? Dumb shit n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:41 AM
Response to Original message
14. He's the best argument I know of for Early withdrawal.
:patriot:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:45 AM
Response to Original message
15. Pity his father didn't know about early
withdrawal. The planet might be a better place.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:50 AM
Response to Original message
16. Vietnam SHOULD have been a lesson
in not fighting wars based on lies.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:52 AM
Response to Original message
17. What! They haven't attacked you, there, have they?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:54 AM
Response to Original message
18. He just made a complete ass of himself on a world stage
The election talking points meant solely for domestic consumption sound even dumber when spoken abroad.

They should have had Condi test this one out on the Sunday morning talk shows like they usually do.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:01 AM
Response to Reply #18
21. I COULD NOT BELIEVE that he went out on a such a limb to illustrate
his own stupidity and ignorance on a world stage, particularly this one. Have his own advisors completely thrown in the towel at this point, and are just content to have him go out there without a net each day?? :wtf:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:55 AM
Response to Original message
19. Too bad he didn't learn a lesson from Vietnam earlier
and keep us out of another damn war!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 08:58 AM
Response to Original message
20. The media should be skewering him over that
statement. I would put it in the top 5 stupidest things he has uttered, real close to "Bring it on!"

Meanwhile some more voters that voted Republican are saying to themselves "What an asshat! He has ruined it for us!" :cry:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Red Right and BLUE Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:08 AM
Response to Original message
23. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
??????????????????
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:10 AM
Response to Original message
25. I almost kicked my TV off the stand when I heard him say that this AM.
But I remembered there's a new episode of Dr Who tonight.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu May 02nd 2024, 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC