The Vietnam Exit Strategy

Does the left support victory in Iraq? Apparently not because usually, supporting victory means believing in it. “Dean: U.S. can’t win Iraq war” Of course, I’d hate to be labelling people according to what they actually say (on a continual basis), but the Left has had the same exit strategy for Iraq since we’ve been there. It’s the ‘Vietnam Exit Strategy’, and Dean explains it as well as anyone…

...the idea the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."

In an interview with WOAI radio in San Antonio Monday, the head of the Democratic Party drew a parallel between efforts to hand over security responsibilities to Iraqis and similar efforts during the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese.

That side ultimately lost the war.

"Of course, the South Vietnamese couldn't manage to support their own country," Dean said. "I do not believe in making the same mistake twice. And America appears to have made the same mistake twice."

Dean said he wished President Bush "had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there."

"The idea that we are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong," he said.

Calling President Bush's plan in Iraq a "failed strategy, Dean said he and most Democrats support bringing home an estimated 80,000 National Guard and reserve troops within the next six months. Dean: U.S. can't win Iraq war

Ah, for the good old days. That's what will put this Democrat party back into power. Declaring defeat and pulling out, letting the bad guys take over.

Remember: "Our troops are the enemy."

The Fall of Siagon... or "What supporting our troops but not the mission looks like."

1975: Saigon surrenders

The war in Vietnam ended today as the government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong.

The President, Duong Van Minh, who has been in office for just three days, made the announcement in a radio broadcast to the nation early this morning. He asked his forces to lay down their arms and called on the Vietcong to halt all hostilities.

In a direct appeal to the Communist forces, he said: "We are here to hand over to you the power in order to avoid bloodshed." news.bbc.co.uk

Insert Iraq in place of Vietnam and you have future history according to Howard Dean. Funny how simple the Democratic strategy turns out to be. Maybe someone found an old playbook and decided to dust off a few plays for 'Auld Lang Syne'.

Or maybe someone snuck into the D's locker room and switched playbooks. Due to The Conspiracy's By-Laws I can't name names, but a possible suspect's name might rhyme with 'stove' and could have been accomplished during any number of fake grand jury 'testimonials' set up to throw scandal hungry leftists off balance and lead them to believe a 'Watergate Experience' was also forthcoming. Illusion and misdirection, that's what we Republicans do best, no? But then Democrats are so easily fooled.

Is it 1975 yet?

For it before I was against it... or the Winter Soldier strikes again!

Schieffer: Let me shift to another point of view, and it comes from another Democrat, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He takes a very different view. He says basically we should stay because, he says, real progress is being made. He said this is a war between 27 million Iraqis' freedom and 10,000 terrorists. He says we're in a watershed transformation. What about that?

Kerry: Let me--I--first of all, there is so much more that unites Democrats than divides us. And Democrats have much more in common with each other than they do with George Bush's policy right now. Now Joe Lieberman, I believe, also voted for the resolution which said the president needs to make more clear what he's doing and set out benchmarks, and that the policy hasn't been working. We all believe him when you say, 'Stay the course.' That's the president's policy, which hasn't been changing, which is a policy of failure. I don't agree with that. But I think what we need to do is recognize what we all agree on, which is you've got to begin to set benchmarks for accomplishment. You've got to begin to transfer authority to the Iraqis.

And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not--

Schieffer: Yeah.

Kerry: --Iraqis should be doing that. CBS News, Face the Nation (PDF warning)

Isn't this why Kerry lost the election?

"...going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, ...Our troops are the enemy... terrorizing kids and children, ...Our troops are the enemy... you know, women, breaking sort of ...Our troops are the enemy... the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. ...Our troops are the enemy... Whether you like it or not--" ...Our troops are the enemy...

So why wouldn't it be surprising to hear the exact same talking points coming from Osama Bin Laden?

Zawahri said the new "crusader" campaign by the United States and its Western allies was failing as evident by U.S. losses in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"America and its crusader allies have not achieved anything. Its forces in the battleground are receiving blows each day."

He discredited Iraq's January elections, saying only half the population turned out to vote, and blasted what he called a weak government that was swept into power.

"The (Iraqi) government is begging Americans not to leave because they know the day Americans leave is the day they are finished."

Four years after the U.S. war on Afghanistan, only the Taliban exercised real power in the country, chaos reigned in its capital Kabul, and legislative elections held in September were fraudulent as they were monitored by a biased United Nations, he said. reuters

A pattern emerges

Lest I be accused of hatred and lies, I wouldn't have to do this if the Democrats had a different agenda and actually said so. But the truth is out there-- when you consider that Democrats began floating the idea of a draft to fill in the Vietnam nostalgia and hasten the end of the war. Is it just my definition of hyposcrisy and double dealing that is amiss here or didn't Democrats create a bill to reinstitute the draft before the 2004 election and then used the fact that there was a bill to reinstitute the draft in congress to say Bush wants to institute a draft?

I also remember something about Rock the Vote and P. Diddy saying "Vote or Die" in reference to how Bush's second term meant death for America.

Hoping to build on the American public's growing frustration with the war in Iraq, anti-war activists in San Francisco submitted a local ballot measure that would put the city on record as opposing the presence of military recruiters in public high schools and colleges.

If it qualifies for the November ballot and is approved by voters, the initiative would not ban the armed forces from seeking new recruits at San Francisco campuses, an action that puts schools at risk of losing federal funding.

Instead, the nonbinding "College Not Combat" resolution merely would encourage city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters even if it means forsaking government dollars and to create scholarships and training programs that would reduce the military's appeal to young adults. sfgate

Similiar efforts are under way all over the country by dedicated people.

The Vietnam Exit Strategy includes floating fears about a draft as a tool to weaken support for the war. Efforts to stop military recruiting in order to weaken support for the war. Saying there is no way to win in Iraq as a way to weaken support for the war. Calling Iraq Vietnam and a quagmire in order to weaken support for the war. Calling for an immediate pullout and calling Iraq a defeat in order to weaken support for the war.

Everything points to the fact that the left is doing everything it can to weaken support for the war.

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