As far as the American media is concerned, Vietnam seemed to appear out of nowhere in the early 60's and then dissappeared in 1975. Just so people know what happened there after we withdrew our support from the "US puppet government", here's Amnesty International's 2005 yearbook on the place: http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/vnm-summary-eng

You didn't say what Bill Frist did, but I'm going to guess that its the new rule which allows the 9 Gitmo detainees which HAVE been charged (out of 500 who have not) to have their status reviewed by the DC Court of Appeals (which, if memory serves me right, is very conservative ... although I could be wrong, not worth researching. Its very something.)

This is a war of ideas as much as it is about bullets...

Mitch said,

"The hamsters on the other side of the aisle have been carping about "another Vietnam" since roughly 11AM on 9/11/01."

You're pathetic Berg

And you're a bitter little bitch "Doug".
My advice is go take a big dump. We'll all feel a lot better. And you'll keep that stench private.
Fucking tool.

"Pathetic"?

No, Doogie, "pathetic" is Ms. Sontag on 9/12, channeling Ms. Fonda.

"Pathetic" are the MoveOn idiots resurrecting the pacifist mantras of the sixties, which all but guaranteed the massacre of Cambodia, with their petition drive of 9/13: ""We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of the United States of America and of countries around the world, appeal to the President of The United States, George W. Bush; to the NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson; to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi; and to all leaders internationally to use moderation and restraint in responding to the recent terrorist attacks against the United States. We implore the powers that be to use, wherever possible, international judicial institutions and international human rights law to bring to justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than the instruments of war, violence or destruction."

"Pathetic" ("pathetique"?) was Biden, replaying the same damned soundtrack from the sixties, with his "How much longer does the bombing campaign continue?" (Biden asked during an Oct. 22 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations) "We’re going to pay every single hour, every single day it continues."

The arguments directly caused millions of deaths then, and the same crew started bringing them back the day after 9/11.

I believe Darwin had you guys in mind as he sat on the Beagle.

Doug -- if recollection serves the action in Afghanistan began in Nov or Dec, and the left had already been talking about a Vietnam-like quagmire in the horrible "Afghan winter" for months ahead of our attack. So, if it didn't start at 11am on 9/11 it was within weeks after that. (Go back and re-read Michael Moore, etc. etc.) Now THAT'S pathetic.
I'm going to assume we are talking about Senate Amendment 2518 requiring progress reports and clarification of strategy from the adminstration.
Touted by Frist as a repudiation of the dem's cut and run strategy, it is anything but. The amendment can be described in one word: Gutless.
Have we forgotten how to win a war??? The pol's just see the poll numbers and cast what they think is a politically expedient vote regardless of the encouragement it sends our enemies and the increased danger it places our troops under.
You really want the war to end faster? You really want to reduce casualties on all sides? Then vote unanimously to support the president without equivocaton and until the end. Tell the terrorists killing innocent Iraqis that we will NEVER cut and run, they will NEVER win. That's how you win. That's how you save lives, American and Iraqi. Their only strategy is to wage a low level campaign until we lose our collective will to fight; votes like today play directly into their hands. The only way this becomes another Vietnam is if we let it, with gutless votes like today's.
Oh, I thought of another word for today's vote: Disgraceful. With a guy like Frist leading the Senate GOP Bush doesn't need enemies.
Damn, another post that got too long. Sorry.

You're an anonymous ankle biter "Doug." That's pathetic.

As usual, Ott says it best
http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2070

Republicans have both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court. I blame Michael Moore.

I blame RINOs in the Senate.

The trackback uri for this post doesn't seem to be working so I'll do this the old-fashioned way.

I linked to this post on Alabama Watch in which I take Senator Shelby to task for joining the axis of weasel on this vote.

"vote unanimously to support the president without equivocaton and until the end."

Holy crap... Sounds awfully familiar...

… The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—300 million people all with the same face …

Trying for the Best Meltdown Award Mitch? This one isn't as good as the last one, and isn't up to Hindrocket's standards.

Eva,

So is expressing *any* ire or frustration always a "meltdown" in your little world?

It would explain a lot.

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