Walter Smith — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:38:20 GMT

Mr. Karnow first says the Tet Offensive did not “galvanize the effort to sway American opinion.” In the next paragraph he says “Opposition to the war mushroomed…” and goes on to cite the very broad coalition of organized groups that joined the anti-war effort. This double talk caught my attention. But the glaring absence from Karnow’s narrative about the relevance of Tet was the fact he completely ignored both the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence and the US Declaration of Independence. The Vietnamese modeled their war for Independence on the American one. The Iraqui factions may or may not learn from the American and the Vietnamese wars for Independence. But the American wrong in Iraq is solidly revealed by the American Declaration of Independence. We are losing in Iraq because we are violating our own national moral and political foundational principles. That fact needs no additional help to prevent us from winning anything in Iraq, Afghanistan, or any of the other places where our covert operators enjoy the financial and political blessings of our bi-partisan anti-American US Congress, Administration, and Courts. Those of us who believe we can turn Corporate America’s water boys and girls in Congress into patriots by yammering at them are the most seriously deluded.

Walter Smith — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:13:47 GMT

Jack, Rummy has no position. He is all imposition. And those pods are his vision of something like pods of Orca Whales. Call them Pods of Propagandists. I can see them now, swimming in the sea of citizens, spreading the virus rummus alcoholicus throughout the nation.

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