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To: combjelly who wrote (312853)	11/28/2006 3:39:19 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573714

Saigon syndrome "Judging by a lot of the rhetoric coming from the new Democratic majority in Washington, Democrats are not just stuck in a pre-9/11 mentality; they're stuck in a pre-1980s mentality. It's as if nothing has happened in the world since the fall of Saigon. ... "Generals often make the mistake of fighting the last war. On Iraq, Democrats are doing exactly that. They just cannot get past Vietnam. Someone might want to remind them of two important lessons of Vietnam they seem to have forgotten: 1) In the absence of U.S. troops, the Communists' slaughter of innocents continued unchecked; 2) Our retreat taught the world what the North Vietnamese already knew: To defeat the United States you don't have to win a single battle, you just have to kill enough Americans to turn public opinion against the war." -- Andrew Cline, writing on "Still in Saigon," Wednesday in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org

To: combjelly who wrote (312853)	11/28/2006 5:20:31 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573714

CJ, since the left never believed in the war on terrorism anyway, what's wrong with asserting that the American left has been trying to sabotage our efforts? Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (312853)	11/28/2006 5:21:37 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1573714

Tench has been singing this tune also. So it isn't that they screwed up and didn't send enough men. It wasn't that Iraq was a hornet's nest that probably shouldn't have been messed with. They, like the German Empire, were stabbed in the back by the left... I thought that intelligence trumped partisanship, but I am abviouly wrong... Al