Why don't the liberals understand that the way they insult our president and his efforts is responsible for aiding the enemy, and giving them hope?
Did they not learn that lesson from vietnam? Did they not hear the General of the North vietnam army explain that is the only reason they did not give up YEARS before the end of the war?
2007-03-08 16:41:29 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The people who want to kill our young people will want to do that whether I am protesting or not. Don't you get it? They hate Americans being in their country, in their business!! I protest because I want them out of harm's way!
We did not give the enemy hope and aid during Viet Nam, nor are we doing it now.
My desire for peace is not getting anyone killed. How dare you blame this asinine war and its "natural consequences" on the people who don't want war? That's ridiculous!! The people who started it and continue it are those with blood on their hands. Just because you can't stand the thought of blaming Dubya for anything, don't try to make ME the scapegoat!!
2007-03-08 16:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by Joey's Back 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
The answer is obvious, but you don't want to hear it. Bush's war is responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers. Liberals did not decide to go to war based on trumped up evidence.
Unfortunately, liberals and conservatives alike did not question the rationale for war soon enough, partly because people such as yourself helped to curtail any meaningful discussion or debate.
But it's much easier to blindly follow the President, ignore all contrary evidence, and continue to spin the war effort according to the latest administration spin.
Did you ever wonder why we didn't "win" the war a few years ago? There was almost NO questioning of the policies (unfortunately), but what happened? Did Iraq become a secure symbol of democracy even when the President had almost complete support?
2007-03-09 01:28:50 · answer #2 · answered by JustAsking 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is such a preposterous accusation. The U.S. government has not learned the lessons from Vietnam: when another country wants to be free, the people will do anything they can to attain freedom than be under control by an imperialistic nation. Ever since the fall of the British empire, any attempts to colonize another country has been met with resistance. Two million Vietnamese lost their lives during the Vietnam War, one million Algerians lost their lives when France tried to control their land, and now the Iraqis will do anything they can to claim their land as their own rather than letting the U.S profit from their natural resources.
Read your history books rather then listening to Rush Limbaugh.
2007-03-09 00:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anne 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
None!
Every single one of them were lost because Bush unilaterally and illegally attacked a sovereign nation and had no exit plan! For the next 4 years the military was used as targets while Bush screamed "Stay the Course"!!
If Bush had of learned anything from Vietnam he would not have started ANOTHER war based on lies, that he KNEW were lies!
Bush still has no exit plan, and the top military general says the war cannot be won by the military alone!
2007-03-09 00:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by cantcu 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
What needs to be understood here is you can be against the war and very supportive of our troops, to make that assumption is very wrong. People who protest the war do so because we want our troops to return home out of harms way, and because we feel there is no legal and moral reason for them (the troops) to be there in the first place.
Most soldiers who served in Viet Nam understood and when they returned home joined the anti war movement, a voice for ending the war is a voice raised in support of our troops.
2007-03-09 00:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by joymlcat 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The blood and death of any Americans during the Bush administration is on his and Cheney's hands alone. The republicans had full reign for 12 years and made a disgrace of this country. Now they are going to prison...one by one. Someday Bush and Cheney will be put on trial for international war crimes and violations of the Constituition.
2007-03-09 01:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by Gettin_by 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
These people talk about Viet Nam like they have been there. I have. I was there 1/69 to 1/70.
We lost because of the war protesters, like Hanoi Jane, and a Democrat Congress that tried to tie our hands any way they could.
Ask Walter Cronkite. He was one of the main protesters and got his views on TV every night.
This war will be lost just like Viet Nam, because of war protesters and Democrats.
Dems already want to cut the funding for this war, to leave our men unprotected. The enemy is sitting back and laughing at us, just like they did in 'Nam.
We signed a treaty with the North because they promised not to invade the South. We weren't even gone yet and here they came.
Do you think the terrorists are any different?
2007-03-09 01:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by Kye H 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
um ... there were no WMDs in Iraq, Saddam was not trying to get yellow cake uranium, Iraq was not an eminent threat, Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. GW declared "Mission Accomplished" 3 year ago. what are we still doing in Iraq?
why are our troops suffering and dying to create more hatred towards America and create new and more terrorists? pretty stupid concept if you ask me. just keep spilling more Muslim blood on the sands of the Mideast until Muslims hate us so much that they line up to join radical militant terrorist groups while our borders and ports are wide open, our nuke and chem plants are unmonitored and unprotected, while our first responders are under equipped and under funded and our military and National Guard get weaker and weaker.
insanity.
2007-03-09 00:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by nebtet 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You tend to look at this very one sided you know. Sure the liberals give them hope, but who really unites them? The republican administration and their presence in Iraq gives them a continous enemy and I think that that is equally, if not more detrimental to our success anywhere than your point.
Just saying you need to think a little outside the box more. An echo chamber of what you already believe is essentially useless.
cheers
2007-03-09 00:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by scfitz5 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋
How many were lost to the pro-war group?
George W. Bush, the supposed leader of the supposedly Free World, refused to call for an immediate cease fire in war in Lebanon. He insisted that a "lasting peace" was more important than immediate peace. Mr. Mission Accomplished cares very little about the suffering of poor and working people, especially when his agenda is on the line. George W. Bush, the poster child for the war-making defect that plagues humanity, has yet to attend a single funeral for any of the over three-thousand U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. What do tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives, or several thousand civilian lives in Lebanon or Afghanistan, matter? What does it matter that thousands upon thousands of illegal cluster bombs were dropped, or that unexploded clusterets continue killing children who play with them? It does not matter not at all. The U.S. public is spared the horror of its complicity in Bush's war crimes. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt offers the following "advice to Iraqis who see TV images of innocent civilians killed by coalition troops: 'change the channel' " (Iraq Body Count). Just change the channel. Have faith. Believe anything the administration puts out.
2007-03-09 00:44:02 · answer #10 · answered by dstr 6 · 14⤊ 2⤋