To the editor:
Cal Thomas says that Iraq is not Vietnam, because Vietnam did not attack the United States on Sept. 11.
Neither did Iraq nor Iraqis.
Anne Haehl,
Lawrence
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Speakout (anonymous) says…
After reading and listening to Cal Thomas for years, I have come to the conclusion that he will do anything to discredit the Arab world. This is sad because there are a lot of people who believe him.
This kind of propaganda is what the whitehouse wants Americans to believe. This is part of the "pull the wool over the eyes" strategy Bush and his cronies have used. It is time to take them to task.
I will never understand how the American people defied the world and re elected this recovering drunk.
Jamesaust (anonymous) says…
I suppose by analogy the 'good war' (as some have taken to calling WWII) had the same flaw -- Japan attacks the U.S. and in response the U.S. declares war on Japan, and then Germany (and Italy to boot!) [Parallel universe: al-Qaeda radicals attack the U.S. and in response the U.S. goes to 'war' against them and against their sponsors in Afghanistan (and the primus inter pares terrorist of them all - Saddam].
The U.S. pursues an all-out effort against Germany and Italy while making mixed progress against Japan. Then, having rearranged the international stage, makes a final, overwhelming thrust to kill the emperor/god worshiping fanatics deep in their own heartland. [Parallel universe: The U.S. pursues an all-out effort against Saddam, the tyrannt atop the second largest concentration of oil on the planet, while having mixed progress finding Bin Laden. Then, having rearranged the international stage .......]
I'm certainly looking forward to the MoveOn/MooreOn/Deaniac new edition of U.S. History to be inserted into our schools and bookstores -- the one that documents the President's (Roosevelt) criminal ignorance of intelligence warnings of imminent Japanese attack, that question the racist obsession with 'white' Europe while pulling our punches in Asia against the 'real' attackers, that documents the criminal negligence of the military's mistakes, unpreparedness and oversights, that highlights the needless civilian deaths at the hands of the American warmongers, the 'obviously' silly/racist profiling of Japanese citizens in America, the trials of spies/saboteurs before military (not civilian!) courts, and our wartime alliance with regimes almost as odious as the enemies being fought.
Yes, it should be an fascinating 'alternative' vision of history - lessons from the present that we can apply to our past. After all, he who does not know the current politically correct, party line, no-brain sloganeering about current events, is doomed to interpret history wrongly.