Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Former Democratic U.S. Senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, said President George W. Bush made a faulty analogy when he cited that war to bolster his case for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq.
“One of the lessons to be learned from Vietnam is that the commitment of American military strength alone cannot solve another country’s political weakness,” Cleland said today in the Democratic Party’s weekly radio address. “This should be a somber warning to us all to responsibly end the war in Iraq and the additional loss of precious American lives.”
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“Some can argue our withdrawal from Vietnam carried no price for American credibility, but the terrorists see it differently,” Bush said in Kansas City in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the largest U.S. veterans’ group.
Cleland, who was defeated for the Senate in 2002 by Republican Saxby Chambliss, said Bush has a “credibility gap” just as political leaders during the Vietnam era did, and is “trying to sell the American people a bill of goods on the Iraq war.”
“I’ve seen this movie before. I know how it ends,” Cleland, who lost both legs and his right arm in a grenade explosion in 1968, said. “I know all the PR in the world didn’t change the truth on the ground in Vietnam and won’t change the truth on the ground today in Iraq.”
Scoot away, Chimpy and Dead-Eye Dick!! Max Cleland may have lost his legs, but he can still kick your cowardly lying chickenhawk asses!!
Max Cleland – American Hero
George Bush – American Nero
Dick Cheney – American Zero
Bush and Cheney on Segways “speeding to our rescue” is very funny, nonnie! However, there is one problem with this: Bush fell off his Segway back in ’03 and your cover doesn’t show the mandated training wheels on his unit…
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm
i know. all the pics of chimpy were of him falling off the segway. however, to stay somewhat true to the original dvd cover, the bastards had to be on wheels, so that is actually most of dead-eyed dick’s bloated body with chimpy’s head and tie stuck on it.
i like that: american hero, nero, and zero! 😆
Ah-ha! Trade secrets revealed!
There was this one picture, though (facing the wrong way for your application), that gave me pause…
The chickenhawks to the rescue of a true American hero. That is really…….something….
they aren’t coming to the rescue. they are just going to ride around him and make some dust clouds. they won’t get too close, as we all know that they are chickenshit cowards and don’t like confrontations.
Hey – my other comment here is missing! Did you “disappear it,” nonnie?
i didn’t delete anything. wordpress has had a boo-boo lately, so maybe something weird happened. 😯
Hi Nightowl, Hi Nonnie!! 😛
re: missing comment. I just rescued it 🙂 , HR’s automatic wordpress spam catcher caught Nightowl’s comment and marked it as spam 😦
So, in doing rescue, I took the opportunity to tell HR’s spam catcher that Nightowl was friend, not spam. So I hope it never happens again. The spam catcher said it understood.
Please shout out if you find a comment goes missing again.