Apr 14 2006
Did Zarqawi Beat The Democrats To Surrender First?
Great news out of Iraq – if true:
Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday.
The group’s failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year “was a tactical admission by Zarqawi that their strategy had failed,” said Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps.
“They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism,” he said in an address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
This must be a sad day for people like Murtha, Dean and others who have been trying to be the first to surrender in Iraq. Seems Zarqawi and Al Qaeda might have beat them to the punch and given up first.
Hat Tip: World Net Daily
Zarqawi, al Qaeda Surrender In Iraq?…
I hope this news is true.
Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday.
The group’s failure to disrup…
Defeatists Defeated?…
Lt. Gen. Vines statements will prove to be nothing short of fantastic if they are, indeed, validated in the coming weeks.
Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the countr…
No one should forget that we have Americans who were winning in a similiar situation before; only to have Victory snatched from their grasp.
Here are words from An Open letter from Mike Benge, Former Vietnam POW 68-73.
¨¨¨¨Instead of punishment for war crimes, through the intense advocacy efforts of presidential hopeful John Kerry, the communist killers and torturers were rewarded with favorable diplomatic and trade relations that have allowed them to line their pockets with gold and fatten their offshore bank accounts from ill-gotten gains. As a Senator John Kerry has fought harder for the Vietnamese communists since his return than he ever did against them during his short four months in Vietnam as a Swift Boat commander. In 2001, Kerry single-handed prevented the Vietnam Human Rights Act from going to the floor of the Senate for a democratic up or down vote after passing the House 410-1.
John Kerry gave aid-and-comfort to the enemy, and his actions after coming back from Vietnam prolonged the war instead of shortening it, causing the unnecessary deaths of over 2 million Vietnamese and 3 million Cambodians, and hundreds of thousands Laotians.
General Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese general, the architect of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975, is cited as crediting Presidential aspirant John Kerry and his VVAW with helping them achieve victory. In Giap’s 1985 memoir about the war, he wrote that if it weren’t for organizations like Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.” Giap was quoted as saying, “What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But, we were elated to notice the media were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. Yes, we were ready to surrender. You had won!”
John Kerry’s picture hangs in the Vietnamese communist’s war museum (formerly called the War Crimes Museum) in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City), in which he is immortalized in tribute to aiding the communists in winning the war. ¨¨¨¨¨¨
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Here is the complete letter:
http://www.gratitude.org/an_open_letter_to_vietnam.htm