Via Beyond the News and HotAir:
Teddy Kennedy "slipped" and referred to Iraq as Vietnam today.
Well, give or take 54,600 US lives and hundreds of killer jihadists who will follow you back home to the states, Teddy may have a point.
It doesn't look like Teddy noted the recent successes in his stump speech today for some reason.
That's odd?
It's almost as if he wants the the US to lose this war in Iraq?
Does anyone know if Teddy apologized for the genocide in Southeast Asia after the US withdrew forces yet?
Just wondering.
Not to my knowledge, he hasn't... those that wanted to leave have much to answer for in not putting forward something that would have replaced US combat troops. Peace is *not* the just absence of combat but something far more.
ReplyDeleteWell as usual the cowards want to pander to people who have a history fascism ...
ReplyDeleteIts no suprise that the party of the Seditious & Sleazy want cut and run since its the party with the track record of doing so...
a jacksonian nice touch on your site regarding Vietnam and so on target! Good stuff!
One more thing I wanted to ad to this, "Teddy Kennedy "slipped" and referred to Iraq as Vietnam today" crappola, I'm guessing the alcoholic woman killer and his fellow travelers haven't read or haven't understood Edward N. Luttwak's monograph, " Give War a Chance ...
ReplyDeleteKennedy and Brzenizki deny that the Vietnam blood bath ever occurred.
ReplyDeleteKennedy: “I heard the same kinds of suggestions at the time of the end of the Vietnam War, Kennedy told NBC's Tim Russert, mocking the notion that we'd have a "great bloodbath" with more than 100,000 dead. "And for those of us that were strongly opposed to the war, (we) heard those same kinds of arguments."
Brzezinski: We expected that the U.S. leaving Vietnam would result in massive killings and genocide and so forth, and collapse of the dominoes in Southeast Asia," he said. "It didn't happen.
The US Army recruits about 80,000 a year, the Navy and Air Force bring in similar numbers and the Marines about 1/2 that. So you can figure the "input" to be about 280,000 every year. As force levels must be maintained you can also see that about 280,000 leave the services every year.
ReplyDeleteWhile the 3,618 of our best, lost over the last 4 years, is a tragedy... it amounts to less then 1/3 of 1% of the number of our folks that move in and out of the military every year.
Yes "readiness" levels in equipment can be subject to severe variations, but you have to balance that against the combat driven upgrades that are being implemented as quickly as possible.
Contrast that with the extensive combat experience the active Military is recieving and you can see that the US Military has never had a better trained, or more experienced cadre, since WWII.
Finally...
Every year 280,000 experienced veterans leave the military and enter the inactive reserves. Don't you feel better knowing that all of those great people are out there? In a national emergency how many hundreds of thousands could be called up on short notice to serve?