A Picture Speaks 1000 Words Mr. President...

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http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/09/kightlinger.html

This photo was taken by the great Jack Kightlinger, who died earlier this year in a car crash. The tape President Johnson was listening to was sent to him by his son-in-law, a Marine Captain named Charles Robb, who would later become Senator Robb. On that tape Capt. Robb spoke about leading Marines who were being killed in battle. President Johnson's daughter said that he would often read her husbands letters home because "my father found them more revealing of the real situation (in Vietnam) than all his Generals' briefings."

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I'm sure that President Obama has seen this photo and knows it's story. I can only hope that it has said to him what it says to me...

"Beware all ye who enter here"

If escalation in Afganistan is really what he intends to do, than I certainly hope he has considered the fact that it will become his war and will define the rest of his Presidency. Just as LBJ is defined by his war.
more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/1/809518/-A-Picture-Speaks-1000-Words-Mr.-President...

Beau Biden is home and Chelsea Clinton opts for working for a Hedge Fund instead of enlisting in the MPs ... and his beloved children are too young.

It's SO MUCH EASIER to send OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN to go kill and die for war profiteering and geopolitical advantages for the moneyed elite.

:puke:

Yeah, sure. :puke:

simple as that. Which is why wars always go the way they're planned to by the people who start them. Which is why we are still in Afghanistan lo these many years later, and have never done anything but put more troops in. 10,000 coalition troops were enough to topple the government in 2001, but 100,000 coalition troops were not enough to hold on to the country 8 years later. But we'll put in a third more and that will be that. Peace and democracy and cuckoo clocks forever. Simple, isn't it?

subdue Afghanistan. The Russian couldn't either....and hell, they could just drive there. And the CIC thinks the US can.....that is true arrogance. WASF. Are the rich to pay for this fiasco with a War Tax?
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"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."


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TG

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of non-violence does not dominate millions of men and women.
http://www.forusa.org/nonviolence/07gandhi.html

Or so I was told last week here. :mad:

"peace freak"
thanks and peace to you,
kp

the "leader" who embarks on a fruitless war.

Obama has taken that step now. He has made himself a war president, not because of the wars he inherited but because of the war he has embraced.

The audacity of hope? No, the abandonment of it.

The really sad thing is that booooosh escaped the quagmire of Iraq with his pitiful legacy relatively intact. Iraq didn't destroy him -- politically or personally -- the way Vietnam destroyed LBJ. I don't think Obama will be so lucky.

He now owns Afghanistan. And I'm not sure he even knows it, or knows why.





TG

:cry:

The Republicans are already crticizing Obama for being too weak on the surge. And they would complain if he didn't send troops.

Plus, Mr. Obama has spit in the face of his base.. those that worked to get him elected.

Any way you look at it... it's a lose-lose situation, not to mention dead soldiers and a jobless economy.

:kick:

Historian Michael Beschloss has two volumes of the LBJ tapes with historical context throughout. They're fascinating reading and give a much better understanding of how we got mired in Vietnam than the Pentagon Papers did.

The fact that Johnson was so conflicted about the war, and knew that it would end the Great Society, shows how history tends to repeat itself.

1000 words is right.