Victory May Be Ours! If You Don’t Screw It Up!
Tony Blankley wrote a wonderful piece on War Powers and the President.
It was 30 years ago when Congress last took the reins of national war fighting. In August 1974, Nixon had been scandalized and left office. The November 1974 election brought forth the “Watergate babies” congress filled with young anti-war Democrats. One of the first actions of the Watergate Congress was to vote to deny an appropriation of $800 million to pay for South Vietnamese military aid, including ammunition and spare parts. Historical records now are known that reveal that five weeks after that vote, the North Vietnamese started planning their final offensive. The morale of the South Vietnamese was broken by that symbolic Congressional act of betrayal. The actual dollar cuts forced South Vietnamese President Thieu to abandon the Central Highland in March of 1975, leading to the collapse of our ally and the onset of genocide and police state brutalities that killed more Asians than all the thousand days of the war did.
Now the Watergate babies have grown old — and age has not improved them. They plan to finish their careers as they started them — in defeatism, betrayal and national dishonor. Oh, that America might see the last of these fish-eyed sacks of loathsome bile and infamy: Unwholesome in their birth; repugnant and stench-forming in their decline.
Now another Republican president has grown weak and struggles to hold on to his war-making powers. I am heartened that President Bush is finally fighting back. He should veto any bill that would grant Congress even a syllable of war-fighting strategy.
Well said Mr. Blankley
linked to Michelle Malkin
November 16, 2005 - 07:57 PM on November 16th, 2005
You can spin this any way you like, but the hard fact remains… President Bush has 3 years to make Iraq work one way or another. I hope he can do it.
November 16, 2005 - 09:08 PM on November 16th, 2005
Liberals are saying that bush is finished but he still has 3 years left why dont they just stop flapping thier big mouths all the time:razz:
November 17, 2005 - 08:46 AM on November 17th, 2005
Zelda,
democracy dosen’t work in 3 years.. it’s been 230 years here, and we are STILL trying to make it work
show some patience, the war against muslim animals will be LONG and bloody, but securing at least one outpost of democracy in this barbarian region is well worth as long as it takes.
November 17, 2005 - 10:12 AM on November 17th, 2005
Over at Iowa Voice, there is a post with article about Saddam being beaten up by 2 Shia court clerks because Saddam blasphemed 2 Shia clerics who were killed after the 91 war when Saddam cracked down on the Shia in the south. One of Bush 41’s huge blunders to allow that to happen.
November 17, 2005 - 09:43 PM on November 17th, 2005
The problem with Operation Desert Storm was that the military had its hands tied by a president who was unwilling to overstep the mandates of the UN resolution to boot Iraq out of Kuwait.
The men were there, the equipment was there, the cut and run in Mogadishu hadn’t happened yet to tip the militants off to the limp spine of members of Congress. We could’ve rolled all of the way into Baghdad and ended Saddam’s reign of terror, but we weren’t willing to overstep the UN resolution guidelines. Too bad. It probably would’ve saved over 1,000,000 lives that have been lost through the depravity of the Hussein regime. Think about it. No oil for food debacle. No more Mass graves being filled. No people starving while Saddam built palaces with the ill gotten proceeds of his crooked oil deals with the UN, France, Germany, and Russia.
November 17, 2005 - 10:28 PM on November 17th, 2005
5- AMEN to that FAO!
November 18, 2005 - 11:42 AM on November 18th, 2005
frmrartyoffcr is right