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During his speech today in Kansas City at the VFW convention (Veterans of Foreign Wars), Bush used Vietnam as an excuse to keep US troops in Iraq.

Mr. Bush accused the Congress of planning to “pull the rug out from under” American troops. He said the American pullout from Vietnam more than 32 years ago was to blame for millions of deaths in Cambodia and Vietnam, and for putting a dent in American credibility that lasts to this day.

“The question now before us comes down to this,” he said. “Will today’s generation of Americans resist the deceptive allure of retreat, and do in the Middle East what veterans in this room did in Asia?”

Firstly, let me ask how dare Bush address the Veterans of Foreign Wars about the Vietnam war, and the supposed lessons learned, when he used his family connections to pull all the strings he could to get him from serving in the same war he talks about? Click here for what his war record consisted of.So Mr. Bush is now using the lessons of Vietnam to bolster support for keeping troops in Iraq. Obviously Bush has a very short memory, so let’s remind him of some of the things he’s said in the past about war.

1: A generation shaped by Vietnam must remember the lessons of Vietnam: When America uses force in the world; the cause must be just, the goal must be clear and the victory must be overwhelming. Source

2: The Republican presidential front-runner also says he learned “the lesson of Vietnam.” “Our nation should be slow to engage troops. But when we do so, we must do so with ferocity. We must not go into a conflict unless we go in committed to win. We can never again ask the military to fight a political war.” Source

3: QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that support for your policy is declining and that fewer than half Americans now support it. What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam comparison?

THE PRESIDENT: I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops, and sends the wrong message to the enemy. Look, this is hard work. It’s hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny. And, yet, we must stay the course, because the end result is in our nation’s interest. Source

“We’ll succeed unless we quit” seems to remain as Bush’s mantra, regardless of the supposed “lessons learned.” Watch the video as Keith Olbermann gives a history lesson to President Bush in 2006. Give him hell Keith!

Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq by vicezilla
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Only one problem with that statement Mr. Bush Your business IS our business!

The Bush Administration’s latest effort to tell the people to go F*CK ourselves came from the Justice Department today that said “records about missing White House e-mails are not subject to public disclosure.”

So not only are White House e-mails missing, but the records of those missing emails are being kept from us.

The Office of Administration estimates that at least 5 million (That’s with 6 zeros!) e-mails went missing between March 2003 to October 2005. Just “went missing”!

I call bullshit! 1, 2, 10, 15, maybe a 100 emails might get temporarily misplaced in the span of a year, not 5 million! This is the U.S. Government we are talking about, not a Mom and Pop newspaper stand in the middle of a corn field somewhere. Where’s the IT department?

I’ve worked for companies that would ensure the emails employees received and sent were backed up and archived twice, on separate servers before they even received it. Is the Government trying to tell us that their IT department is staffed by the Three Stooges?

Hardly. Those emails are safe and sound in Cheney’s “man sized safe” in his office, or stored securely in the deepest, darkest depths of Rove’s ass!

The Bush Administration is breaking the laws of this country, and using the Constitution as a broom to sweep it’s skeletons under the carpet.

Impeachment should be put back on the table, for the whole lot of those crooks. I’m willing to think the country would be in better hands if it were run by the Postmaster General until the next election!

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This pisses me off more than anything! As reported Aug. 17, the US Navy tells 75 year old vet to buy his own Purple Heart! Yes, you heard that right, BUY HIS OWN! WTF?

Korean War veteran Nyles Reed, 75, opened an envelope last week to learn a Purple Heart had been approved for injuries he sustained as a Marine on June 22, 1952.

But there was no medal. Just a certificate and a form stating that the medal was “out of stock.” The form letter from the Navy Personnel Command told Reed he could wait 90 days and resubmit an application, or buy his own medal.

After waiting 55 years, however, Reed decided to pay $42 for his own Purple Heart and accompanying ribbon , plus state sales taxes , at a military surplus store.

This is disgusting! A U.S. Marine has to wait 55 years to learn that he has been awarded a Purple Heart, and then is told he has to buy it himself! This is unacceptable! I personally am embarrassed by this event!

Mr. Reed deserves better than this. After 55 years, how can the Purple Heart be “out of stock?” If it’s out of stock, how can he pay out of his own pocket for one?

This is BS. Remind me again why I pay taxes?

Read about this atrocity here

Tags: But Seriously Though... by vicezilla
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NEW YORK - “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” whose phony news coverage has long included phony “remotes” from war-torn Iraq, will be reporting from Iraq for real next week.

Giving its green screen a temporary rest, the Comedy Central series will air “Operation Silent Thunder: `The Daily Show’ in Iraq,” several onsite dispatches filed by Senior War Correspondent Rob Riggle.

Riggle will provide what the network calls “in-depth coverage and insights from the front lines.” Scheduled to be back in New York this weekend, he begins his reports as soon as Monday. (”The Daily Show” airs Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. EDT.)

While in Iraq, Riggle performed for U.S. troops with fellow comedians Horatio Sanz, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer as part of an entertainment tour titled “Operation Feel the Heat.”
Finally! Some truthful reporting coming out of Iraq!

Report Here

Tags: Musings by vicezilla
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Karl Rove, or “Bush’s Brain” as some like to call him sure has had a lot to say ever since he left the sanctuary of the White House’s West Wing.

After being protected under the much abused “Executive Privilege” security blanket which protected him from answering questions from Congress regarding the many scandals that have come from the Bush Administration, it seems now that he can’t keep his mouth shut. Unfortunately, what he has to say nowadays is mindless babble anyway.

This Sunday, Rove will appear on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Fox News Sunday to answer a variety of questions he no doubt will have approved prior to them being asked.

What will the media ask him? I wonder, I really really wonder? Will they ask him about the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity? Or his involvement in the firing of U.S. Attorneys? Or how about all of those emails that mysteriously disappeared?

The list goes on and on about all the questions that need to be asked and answered, but will they? I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but my gut feeling is that they will not.

Rather, we’ll have to sit and listen to him preach about how evil Hillary Clinton is, and the reasons she won’t make for a good president. Or maybe we’ll get treated to the inside scoop of Karl’s favorite flavor ice cream he liked to serve at his famous “ice cream Friday’s” at the White House!

So check your TV listings in your area, maybe there will be a good pre-season football game on instead, otherwise it’ll be another “there’s nothing good on TV” kind of Sunday.

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