A great comment left on The Indepundit:
Thanks for doing this. The battlefield this weekend will be on the homefront. The only thing that truly concerns me is that the seditionist groups will succeed in causing the American people to lose their will and the enemy will win politically the victory we have denied them militarily.
Let there be no mistake: we are winning here. Morale is outstanding and we are successfully taking the fight to the enemy. You will see a successful referendum in less than 3 weeks and a successfull election in less than 3 months. I see the positive resuts of our actions everyday. The MSM ignores or denigrates almost every piece of positive news, exaggerates every negative and makes the enemy and his actions out to be more than they are.
They absolutely cannot defeat us militarily and have no strategic vision except the destruction of all who oppose them. A strategy based on such a negative is doomed to fail, unless we cut and run. That is the enemy’s only chance to win. The biggest threat we face is a determined enemy who will not quit because, like the Vietnamese they see the possibility of victory because of a perceived willingness to quit at home.
You all are the ones who can help us out here by countering the enemy within. I’ve said it several times before: this war will be won or lost on the homefront, and the fact that there are so many of our so-called fellow citizens determined to defeat us scares me. You are the ones who can keep history from being repeated and you can help us by not allowing the anti-American crowd to help the enemy snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Some very poignant comments about how the same kind of seditionists helped the Communists succeed in Vietnam clearly proves the significance of what you are doing:
“North Vietnamese Col. Bui Tin, who served under Gen. (Nguyen) Giap on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam’s unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, Col. Tin explicitly credited leaders of the U.S. anti-war movement, saying they were “essential to our strategy.”
“Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar movement,” Col. Tin told the Journal.
Visits to Hanoi by ? anti-war allies Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others, he said, “gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.”
“We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war,” the North Vietnamese military man explained.
“Through dissent and protest [America] lost the ability to mobilize a will to win,” Col. Tin concluded. “
Thanks for taking the time to help us out. You are the ones who clearly support the troops… because you support our mission. You may not appreciate the role you will play in helping to win this fight. But I do.
Thanks again.
Another great comment was left after a troll sniveled out some of the left’s talking points, specifically that Bush did not have a plan for Iraq:
This Administration does have a plan — the same plan that has worked every time it has been tried — called RESOLVE.
You outlast the enemy, until more and more of them realize that we are NOT GOING TO LET THEM WIN! You change, you adapt, you learn from your mistakes … but you never give up, for to do so will bring defeat … and death, and destruction, and misery to millions.
As our Marine friend here states … it is working.
We did not do that in Vietnam … and the anti-warriors like yourself are undermining that plan, just as Fonda and Kerry did in Vietnam. I don’t see you holding them (or anyone else) accountable for the millions who suffered after we pulled out.
You do so because you place your trust in an “international community” that is almost as morally bankrupt as the terrorists themselves.
This time though, there are people like me, like SMASH, and many others who will not sit by and let the sound and fury of a bunch of people who see our defeat only as a way to “get Bush” turn their rhetorical flatulence into policy. And, if you dig beyong the surface those polls skim, you’ll find that there are a lot of others who see it our way, when they are not asked loaded questions to further an agenda.
We won’t be fooled again.
And another comment from a soldier in Iraq:
How many Iraqis have you spoken with? Any? Ever? How many Iraqi Government officials have you met? Any? Ever? How many plans have you had to alter because the sovereign nation (Iraq) appreciates your ideas and all the effort that went into them but they want to do things a different way -their way? Tell me about this so called “puppet government” over here. The Iraqi government we work with make their own decisions (sometimes to our chagrin and frustration.)
You probably wouldn’t know what freedom looks like when it appears on a face that never knew it before. How many times have you had Iraqis go out of their way to either run from their house waving (usually little kids) or stop and thank you for giving them a new lease on life? How many Iraqis have you had to look in the eye and promise that you would not desert them…then have to worry that your own countrymen would be the cause of you breaking your promise? I know the answer to the last question -you and those who espouse your belief are telling them, “you’re days are numbered…we’re going to do everything we can so that you suffer the same fate as the Vietnamese and Cambodians” Why? God knows…I sure can’t figure it out.
It’s funny how many people who claim that the war is based on lies refuse to acknowledge that their entire attempt to undermine their nation’s effort is what in fact is based on lies. My bet is the answer to all the other questions I asked is NONE. I could be wrong, but I’ve been deployed here cumulatively over 2 years. How long have you been here? Ever? Or is everything you think you know based on what you read or hear or see from other people?
You know, despite the threats to their own lives and their families…and the very real threat that we may abandon them, Iraqis are still signing up to defend THEIR country…and paying with their lives, or worse the lives of their family members as they defy the intimidation campaign of the enemy. You can’t force people to do that. Nothing but a deeply held belief can cause that to happen. I wonder if you’ve ever known such a thing? When is the last time you risked everything -I mean every thing – you have or ever will have for something you believe in? The Iraqi Government and Nation you disparage is what is compelling these patriots to do that. Why? Because they believe in something. Something positive. Their future. A future paid for in blood. Everything they have or will have. It’s a shame you can’t comprehend that.
No it isn’t easy and it sure as hell isn’t pleasant or convenient but it’s necessary. It must boggle your mind to think that some people try to build things despite your efforts to tear it all down. All your talking points and propaganda cannot change the reality of what is happening here -although the incredibly biased MSM is doing its best to stifle the truth and influence public opinion. (Let me say again I’ve been over here almost 2 years over 3 tours and I have seen and lived the reality and the MSM is not reporting objective truth) The coalition plan (in agreement with the Iraqi Government) of handing over local control of those parts of their country that are secure to the Iraqis is not “cutting and running” nor is it “Vietnam”. But it may be what “Vietnam” might have been.
As the Iraqi military and police stand up and are able to maintain security, the Coalition will decrease in number and move to a position where we can immediately respond to any request for support from the Iraqi government – as we were supposed to do in Vietnam before the Congress voted to stop that plan -just as you would have them to do to us again in Iraq. If the Iraqi Government requests our assistance the “cavalry” is ready willing and able to assist them in any way they ask. But it will be their call. Why? because this government you disparage, the Iraqi Government, governs a sovereign nation. Despite your best efforts, I am betting my life, as so many Iraqis are betting their lives and the lives and future of their children, that Iraq will succeed as a democratic nation. I know why I am here and what my efforts are worth. Go look yourselves in the mirror and tell me what you are….and what it’s worth..then tell me how you can live with yourselves.
And another one from a Vietnam Veteran:
..I’m tired of hearing about this Viet Nam thing..I was there..We did our job and we did it well..It was not the troops that lost that war..It will not be the troops that lose this war if that is the case..It will again be the traitors that can’t grasp the true meaning of Democracy..or Freedom..or the resolve of the true American people to stand up and look adversity square in the eye..Foolish people..I will say it again..”Bin Laden and his people will not stop”..even if we were to “cut and run”..which I refuse to do..Thank God there are those that do know better than to withdrawal..O’Reilly said it..”If we cut and run out of there like you want to do, we would be putting every American in a thousand times more jeopardy than they’re in now.’..Any one with any sense can see this and understand it..And Thank all our troops for what they are doing..
Some great comments left by some great people. It just amazes me that people want to cut and run from Iraq, and let the Iraqi’s be damned. If they are not ready to take over the security of their country, so what…we need to get out of there. If hundreds of thousands die because we cut and run, so what…
Amazing. These people are the same people who forced our Government to run from a war we were winning and in the process MILLIONS died. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?
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