Peace with "honor": Dick Cheney channels Dick Nixon

[scoopmeister]

http://www.attytood.com/2007/02/peace_with_honor_cheney_channe.html

Cheney:

"And I want you to know that the American people will not support a policy of retreat," he added. "We want to complete the mission, we want to get it done right, and we want to return with honor," said Cheney, who heads on Thursday for Australia to meet Prime Minister John Howard, another backer of Bush's Iraq policy.

If that reminds you of Nixon's "peace with honor" pledge from 1968, it should, and you should be very alarmed:

1) When Nixon gave that speech at the GOP convention, it had been 1,467 since the alleged incident in the Gulf of Tonkin that triggered the American escalation of the war. When he finally achieved his "peace with honor," it was another 1,633 days later, so more than half the fighting came after the "peace with honor" promise.

2) More importantly, from the start of 1969 through the end of the war, some 20,604 American soldiers died in pursuit of "peace with honor," more than one-third of the total (58,202) for the entire war.

3) In the end, "peace with honor" didn't look all that different than "peace" -- i.e., if Nixon had merely brought the troops home on Jan. 20, 1969. As we all know, Saigon still fell, in May of 1975.

[Kutjara]

1. Why is Cheney using a word...

...he doesn't know the meaning of? To him "honor" is the antonym of "off her."

[muntrv]

2. Get it done right? You're not even sending body armor to the troops and

you're cutting VA funding. Dick, maybe you can get John Howard to send another 20,000 Australians to die in Iraq.

[Amonester]

3. The MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex) corporations stood to profit...

for more than 6 years after the Republic Party's crook said that.

Today, Big Oil wants to steal 3 barrels out of 4 for as long as there will be any black gold in Iraq (and in Iran next).

And the Constitution is (almost) dead.

Distressing.

[TahitiNut]

4. "we want to return with honor"???

Where the hell they going to get it? They didn't go in with it, so they'll have to steal that, too.

[lovuian]

5. I said this when the Iraq war started We would leave in helicoptors

We will leave quickly like Vietnam

Another American travesty

[TahitiNut]

6. "If Nixon had merely brought the troops home on Jan. 20, 1969" ...

... I wouldn't have had time to get the 'flavor' of the country. A little over two weeks would have just been a junket.

[stellanoir]

7. We have decimated and annihilated a country with no regard for their traditions.

We have discredited ourselves through heinous torture of other human beings. There is no honor in that.

It is embarrassment. Wars are not an effect way in this still new millennium.

We can change and rectify this as best we can. With our hearts and minds.

Have a nice whatever.