Complete utter nonsense. It was Democrats who led the opposition to Vietnam against a Democratic president, not Republicans. True, they were late--Wayne Morse's prediction that everyone would deeply regret their Gulf of Tonkin vote was proven largely correct, as Byrd said a few years ago. But at least a number of them were there by '66-67.
It was still few in 66 - 67. It didn't really rise until 68. It was very few in 64 - 65, which was when the troops went in in force.
So aside from the fact that the entire war was a completely different situation, the protests were a completely different situtation too. Practically nobody was screaming "quagmire, we're doomed, we're doomed" in 64 and 65, like they were here right from day one in 2003.
We also heard from day one how illegal this war was, because Kofi Annan said so. We never heard this about bombing Belgrade, which Clinton did with no UN okay at all. Please don't try to tell me that the Dem party wouldn't have had a different attitude if a Dem had been president, or that there isn't a very large contingient that regards George Bush as the true enemy, and have been rooting for any outcome that hurts him, regardless of what might happen to America. |
