Reply #131: No. That's not what 'forget Vietnam' means. It means forget the ugly truth [View All]

[JohnOneillsMemory]

because it doesn't make a good soundbite to campaign on. Now that is a gross disservice to our abused troops of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

(I understand your efforts as a grass-roots PR spokesperson for the General, FrenchieCat, by putting the best face on both him and DU by reminding us that we (Democrats and liberal progressives) support the troops. Some of us support them enough to want them home NOW and hold the White House, Repub and Dem Congress, and Pentagon brass responsible for this debacle.)


General Clark is advising a long occupation for our troops at the same time he's preaching support for our vets. Hmph.

General Clark is campaigning with 'you can't bring democracy at the point of a gun' and but says to the House Armed Services Committee:

"GENERAL CASEY DID THE RIGHT THING IN SHUTTING DOWN NAJAF AND FALLUJAH IN...ALL THAT ACTION THAT OCCURRED IN THE FALL." Outrageous butt-covering for the neo-con Pentagon. Absolutely outrageous.

Ah, the schizophrenia of the Wall Street Big Brother War Crime 'liberal' at work.


Don't trust anyone who wants you to forget the difficult past. Don't give in to the bumper-sticker-ization of campaign language if it denies the truth.

Real down-to-the-soul of humanity truths CAN fit on bumper-stickers:

'War is a Racket.' General Smedley Butler had the principles and honesty to admit this exactly 70 years ago. Clark can't say this, can he?

If he "had the starch" to speak that truth instead of portraying Iraq as a 'bad apple' in the barrel of American military history, this would be a better world with less war, poverty, disease, hatred, suffering.

But he has his own war to win again. Against the GOP which snubbed him.

And that means restoring glory to the neo-con trammeled flag. For the next "last resort."