| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Dreamin Posts: 3,390 Points: 21,520, Level: 92 | Level up: 17%, 830 Points needed |  |  Kissinger Acknowledgement Demonstrates the Right was Wrong Again Email Print The paradox is that the right has been proven wrong again and again, as well as hypocritical. The hypocrisy was blatant in the case of the Vietnam War, a track record now being equaled if not surpassed by the Cheney-Bush brigade's actions and comments on the Iraq War.
Currently those who dare criticize Cheney, Bush and other administration operatives for rushing America to war on demonstrably proven false information are denounced as damaging America at a time the country is waging a war against terrorism.
Better than a generation ago Nixon and his hired guns declared themselves to be seeking to perpetuate freedom on behalf of the "silent majority," and were allegedly being opposed by those who were accused of "running down America."
It was a period of turbulent division that saw scores of American young men leave the country and travel to Canada, some never to return, rather than go to Vietnam to fight in a war they genuinely believed to be wrong. Hand wringing flag wavers denounced them as "traitors" and "cowards," swallowing the Nixon Administration line that if Communism was not halted in Vietnam that we would have a fight on our hands with hordes of Asians seeking to invade our shores. http://www.politicalcortex.com/story...5/28/106/33715 |