Victory now certain!

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Victory now certain!
by Jack Lessenberry | Sep 19 2007



"The strategy we're following this time is the proper one, and is producing results. Repeated successes."
--Gen. William Westmoreland, before Congress, April 28, 1967

"I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq."
--Gen. David Petraeus, before Congress, Sept. 11, 2007



Yes, citizens, if you aren't a limp-wristed nervous Nellie, if you aren't a member of the defeatist hate-America-first club, it ought to be perfectly clear that our policy of Vietnamization is succeeding.

Within a few months or maybe decades, the Iraqi forces ought to be able to defend Saigon on their own. Provide policing services in Hue and Da Nang, and control the oil derricks on the central highlands and the Plain of Jars. Yes, victory is already glowing at the end of the tunnel, and every loyal American should be able to see it.

Sigh.

Comrades, one of the worst things about being older and having paid attention all these years is seeing succeeding generations of morons make the same mistakes, again and again, with less excuse.

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The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, the leading architect of American economic policy for years, gets it. Everything about the war in Iraq is dirty, sullied, covered with lies, and has been from the beginning. We were lied to about the reasons for getting into the war, we were lied to about what kind of war it would be, and why. We were lied to about how long we were going to stay. This has even been acknowledged by Selected President Bush, the sorriest creature ever to set foot in the Oval Office since Teddy Roosevelt's dancing bear.

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1. the same mistakes again and again and again

it makes me sad. :(