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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
what function this category of memes serve in the liberal mind, i do not know. painting people in broad brush strokes is xenophobic, bordering on the most vile racist roots of the rising neo-fascism.
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Wow. The irony meter just exploded. You paint all of us with a broad brush in order to protest being painted with a broad brush?
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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
He is the SOB who said during the TET offensive that the war was lost .
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Yes, and he was right, wasn't he? The job of a journalist is to report the truth, even if it upsets the warmongers. Vietnam was lost, and blaming it on cronkite is about as disingenuous as it gets. Vietnam was lost because our fighting strategy was appallingly stupid. Take a hill, then go away, wait for the VC to take it back, then go take it again. Who the hell came up with that? Sure as hell it was lost before we even got into it.
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This above statement in red is hereby awarded first prize in my "ignorance of war and the military" contest.
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And that one is awarded first prize in the "I don't like freedom of speech" contest. This idea that the public has to shut up when we're in a war, even if it's an unjust, immoral, illegal war that was justified with lies on top of lies, and even if thousands of American soldiers are dying and many thousands more are coming away maimed for life is ridiculous. By your logic, once someone lies, cheats, and steals us into a war, they've won 100%, and no one can ever say anything against it again. Sorry, we're not buying it.
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Oh, that's right. Last time I said something like this, you announced I was "bullshitting," and I don't REALLY know the people I say I do. Keep that up, and I might get motivated enough to prove it.
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Wouldn't that be refreshing.
And your quote - the guy's running around calling people "gooks," his quote is laced with profanity, and shows his shining ignorance to what was actually going on. Cronkite was reporting the facts. Others took those facts and actively tried to bring people like your friend home, because they realized that we shouldn't be over there, and it wasn't right to ask the young men in the military to sacrifice their lives, their limbs, and their health (look up agent orange if you want an idea of health problems vietnam vets are STILL going through today, and that's only a small part of the problem) for a war that we was none of our business, not our problem, and that we shouldn't have been in.
I say those who support bringing the troops home are far more supportive of the troops themselves than are the people who support sending them out to be killed and maimed for nothing.