It's Going To Be Another Vietnam
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Check out this genius from the Floor of the House on the War Debate.
Mr. Speaker, it is time to pull our troops out . . . . The longer we stay in . . . the more chance we have of being sucked into another Vietnam in that region. The longer we stay in . . . the less credibility we have with neighbors in the hemisphere that we are a nation of peace, not an invading force.
Mr. Speaker, we can argue another day about how our troops got [there], but I do not think anyone wants them to stay there. That is why the troops have to come home now-not by Christmas Eve when the War Powers Act would require them to come home. Our troops must come home now. Therefore, if given the opportunity I intend to offer an amendment to the fiscal year . . . Defense appropriations bill that would require that our troops be pulled out . . . 15 days after the President signs the appropriations bill. That is more than enough time for an orderly withdrawal....We have run out of excuses for remaining . . . . It is time to come home.
Amazing dumb isn't it? Even more so when you realize it was Congressman Ed Markey talking abut the invasion of Grenada back in 1983. I've got the unedited text, without the ellipses, below the fold. You can see for yourself how minor the edits were.
Funny how Democrat war debates never change.
Mr. Speaker, it is time to pull our
troops out of Grenada. All the Americans who wanted to leave that country have been evacuated-and evacuating endangered citizens was the only valid purpose for being in that country. All major resistance to the U.S.
invasion of Grenada has ended The longer we stay in Grenada the more chance we have of being sucked into another Vietnam in that region. The longer we stay in Grenada, the less credibility we have with neighbors in the hemisphere that we are a nation of peace, not an invading force. Mr.
Speaker, we can argue another day about how our troops got to Grenada, but I do not think anyone wants them to stay there. That is why the troops have to come home now-not by Christmas Eve when the War Powers Act would require them to come home. Our troops must come home now. Therefore, if given the opportunity I intend to offer an amendment to the fiscal year 1984 Defense appropriations bill that would require that our troops be pulled out of Grenada 15 days after the President signs the appropriations bill. That is more than enough time for an orderly withdrawal....We have run out of excuses for remaining in Grenada. It is time to come home.
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...Grenada this fall. We had a cab driver take us all over the island for about three hours while he told us of the history of the country from the fifties. We stopped at an outbuilding at a major intersection where there remains to this day a homemade picture of the 82nd Airborne's insignia, surrounded by graffiti saying "Thank you USA!". His eyes welled up as he told us how grateful they were to this day to have had the US restore their freedom from Coard's unwanted coup and the Cubans who supported it.
I wish some folks had an inkling of their actions upon the future.
I have a friend from high school who went to medical school in Grenada (post-invasion) and is now an Emergency Medical doctor at a great big hospital in the Northeast. I also remember the left's hatred of Operation Just Cause (which all of the cynical libs. were calling "Operation Just Cause We Can") at the time, but my friend has remembered his time in Grenada and he's a wealthy man who has given back to Grenada several times over, and helped hundreds of emergency medical patients here in the United States, thanks to the actions of the United States to save the place.
My friend didn't go to medical school in Grenada because it was an inferior school and the only one he could get into. He got into several other medical schools, but it's a long story about how he wound up completing his M.D. in Grenada. Short and sweet of it is that he's one of the best EMT doctors you'll ever meet, and his ability to get the degree and then contribute back to Grenada's economy (which he has done) was largely because we didn't let Grenada become a waypoint for the commies. That's a fact of my life, and his.
Earlier in the week, I it was either Rush or his substitute professor Hedgecock went over the behavior of the Dems during the Civil War and the parallels between then and now were amazingly similar. I wish I could copy the transcript here but it can be seen at
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021207/home.member.html
Our party always takes the hits on war issues, even when democrats are the authors of the wars. We just have to hope that sooner or later the public gets the idea that politicizing wars means loosing wars.
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