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I get emails all the time in responses
to the Webb’s World editorials, some are very amusing. Recently
(prior to a week ago and that famous statue coming down) the subject
had been the ‘failed plan’ of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks. The emails predicted a Vietnam
era quagmire.
When I read the word ‘quagmire’ I
already know the tenor of the letter, and the writer. ‘Quagmire’
is the terminology of the ‘over-the-hill, 60’s era liberals;’
one of the vestiges of the Vietnam era, that gold age of the anti
war left. It seems these leftists are pulling for mega casualties
and misfires for our military. These people probably make up most
of Al-Jazeera’s English speaking audience...
For those who wrote claiming the war and its
plans were muddled in a quagmire, and we would face losing as
many as 3000 troops capturing Baghdad (2 of Clinton’s old
Generals, Wesley Clark and Barry McCaffrey, commenting while ‘embedded’
in TV studios), check out these startling facts:
- We took Iraq in less time than it took
Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was
a 51-day operation.
- It took less time to find evidence of
chemical weapons in Iraq than it took Hillary Clinton to find
the Rose Law Firm billing records.
- It took Teddy Kennedy longer to call the
police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick than it
took the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy
the Medina Republican Guard.
- We took Iraq in less time than it took
to count the votes in Florida in the year 2000!
And the Democrats called the Iraq effort a
failed plan? Maybe they would have preferred a repeat of Clinton’s
Mogadishu, where 18 Army Rangers were killed and dragged through
the streets. Or, maybe they would like us to have sat back and
done nothing about the threats to our country. We’ll call
that one the “9/11 Approach.” Sadly, the Democratic
Leadership is always worried about casualties and innocent civilians
getting caught in the crossfire… until those innocents happen
to be Americans.
That's
how I see it!
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Webb's
World ~ 04/16/2003
