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| Hagel calls Iraq 'an absolute replay of Vietnam' |
| 2006-07-29 |
| Calling conditions in Iraq "an absolute replay of Vietnam," Sen. Chuck Hagel said Friday that the Pentagon is making a mistake by beefing up American forces in Iraq. U.S. soldiers have become "easy targets" in a country that has descended into "absolute anarchy," the Nebraska Republican and Vietnam combat veteran said in an interview with The World-Herald. Hagel previously has likened the war in Iraq to Vietnam, but Friday's comments drew a stronger connection. They followed a speech on the Middle East that Hagel delivered at the Brookings Institution. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 "Justified" Motherly Communism, Totalitarianism, Dialecticism, Governmentism, OWG and Anti-SOvereignty, etc. = "STATUS QUO" FOR AMERICA = AMERIKA, FRRE AMERICA = UNITED SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ala OIL STORM. Move along, boyz, obviously no Global Communism-Socialism here - just becuz IRAN overtly-publicly proclaims to give support to anti-Israeli terror groups based in Lebanon doesn't mean they mean to hurt Israel, thus Israel is the cause and de facto raison d' etre of the "terror attacks" in its northern areas, becuz Israel is shelling and rocketing and suicidin' itself, killing and maiming its own citizens to deceive the world, like America on 9-11 to its own city!? IFF "MEGADISASTERS" ON HISTOY CHANNEL DOESN'T CONVINCE AMERICANS = AMERIKKANS, USA = USR = USSA OF THE NEED FOR OWG AND SOCIALISM, HYPER-REGULATION AND ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY, ETC. WHAT WILL, D*** IT??? HOW CAN AMERICA = AMERIKKA SAVE OR PRTECT OR DEFEND ITSELF WID OUT UNIVERSAL GOVT INTERVENTION - you know, the OWG Americans have to have, must to must, but without our leaders or the Demoleft having to explain why!? Just becuz America =Amerika is a representative democracy [for now]doesn't mean our elected leaders have to tell us = voters anything. GEEZ WHIZ, WHAT NEXT, NEXT THING YOU YOU KNOW POLS WILL BE DEMANDED TO KEEP THEIR ELEX ELECTION PROMISES-AGENDAS TO THE VOTERS. - THE HORROR, THE HORROR! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-07-29 22:10 |
| #7 "an absolute replay of Vietnam" The media and the Dems are sure trying to make it so. Big lie, etc.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-29 16:46 |
| #6 Yup. And the Iraq casualties each year are about the same as one week's worth of U.S. highway fatalities. And roughly 2X the number of people who die in slip 'n fall accidents. Yet useless idiots like Hagel feed the panic. Someday, the cowardice and stupidity of people like Hagel is going to get one-- or several-- of our cities nuked. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-07-29 16:12 |
| #5 DD: Memo to Hagel: the number of Americans killed each year so far in Iraq is about the same as the number of Americans killed each year in recreational boating accidents. Actually, the total number of Americans killed in Iraq so far is also less than the number of Americans killed in a single day one sunny September morning. On 9/11. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-07-29 15:53 |
| #4 Memo to Hagel: the number of Americans killed each year so far in Iraq is about the same as the number of Americans killed each year in recreational boating accidents. If you can't grow a brain, you useless twit, at least grow a goddamn spine and quit bitching about "Vietnam"! |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-07-29 15:22 |
| #3 Viet Nam US KIA 1966-I 1403 1966-II 1970 1967-I 2566 1967-II 2807 1968-I 3111 1968-II 3221 1969-I 3243 1969-II 3006 1970-I 2653 1970-II 2258 1971-I 1682 1971-II 1185 Deaths of draftees as a fraction of the total: 30.4% IOF KIA: 2003-II 280 2004-I 376 2004-II 472 2005-I 410 2005-II 436 2006-I 354 Deaths of draftees as a function of the total: 0.00000% Yeah, an absolute replay. Anybody'd be indifferent between the 2 cases. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-07-29 15:11 |
| #2 Hagel finished growing a long time ago. How he keeps getting re-elected is the mystery. A donk could probably run to his right and still be acceptable to Kos. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-29 14:57 |
| #1 Article: They followed a speech on the Middle East that Hagel delivered at the Brookings Institution. Hagel is delivering speeches at liberal think tanks. Great. He must be "growing" in office - growing liberal, that is. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-07-29 14:53 |