Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein
the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't
seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff. Also,
Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped
Ford's funeral.
The passing of Gerald Ford should remind Americans that
Democrats are always lying in wait, ready to force a humiliating
defeat on America.
More troops, fewer troops, different troops, "redeployment" --
all the Democrats' peculiar little talking points are just a way
of sounding busy. Who are they kidding? Democrats want to cut and
run as fast as possible from Iraq, betraying the Iraqis who
supported us and rewarding our enemies -- exactly as they did to
the South Vietnamese under Ford.
Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and
clamoring for America's defeat, a tradition they have brought
back for the Iraq war.
They insisted on calling the Soviet-backed Vietcong "the
National Liberation Front of Vietnam," just as they call Islamic
fascists killing Americans in Iraq "insurgents." Ho Chi Minh was
hailed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat," just as Michael Moore
compares the Islamic fascists in Iraq to the Minute Men.
During the Vietnam War, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch"
Sulzberger told his father that if an American soldier ran into a
North Vietnamese soldier, he would prefer for the American to get
shot. "It's the other guy's country," he explained.
Now, as publisher of the Times, Pinch does all he can to help
the enemy currently shooting at American soldiers.
After a half-dozen years of Democrat presidents creating a
looming disaster in Vietnam -- with Kennedy ordering the
assassination of our own ally in the middle of the war and
Johnson ham-handedly choosing bombing targets from the Oval
Office -- in 1969, Nixon became president and the world was safe
again.
Nixon began a phased withdrawal of American ground troops,
while protecting the South Vietnamese by increasing the bombings
of the North, mining North Vietnamese harbors and attacking North
Vietnamese military supplies in Cambodia -- all actions
hysterically denounced by American liberals, eager for the
communists to defeat America.