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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (544781)	2/24/2004 4:36:43 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN, the same folks that are trying to pin that on Kerry are the ones that tried to pin that on McCain. What do you think Kerry and McCain have in common. Hint, both of them ran against Bush and both of them oppose many of the neocon policies. As far as the politicians running the war, in the 1st Cav in 1969 our INTERNAL POLICY that came down from the military was to do search and destroy. That meant we were sent into the jungle to "find" the NVA. "Finding the NVA meant that a point man led a squad, a platoon and a company into opaque deep jungle where the NVA were dug in and waiting in almost totally concealed ambush. IN ALMOST EVERY INSTANCE WHEN WE "FOUND" THEM, THE POINT MAN AND A FEW OTHERS WERE KILLED. We'd then try to kill a few of them, pull back and call in the gunships or bombing runs. But they WERE ALWAYS OUT THERE. They wouldn't quit because they BELIEVED in THEIR CAUSE. Those were our "winning" tactics. You never win the "peace" against people that have that kind of commitment so I don't blame the "lost" war on politicians who limited it and stopped it. I blame it on those who started it. PS. It's the dishonest who create the smoke. It's the honest that can show you the fire. PSS. Kerry seems like a political hack to me. He should show some character and take some unpopular positions that he believes in. That doesn't mean I don't admire what he did in, and in opposing, the Vietnam war. It also doesn't mean that I wouldn't prefer a cardboard president to one that had no insight and was easily manipulated by the radical right and corporate-military-oil interests.