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Thread #33241   Message #447019
Posted By: Uncle Jaque
22-Apr-01 - 10:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: MORE credit for Bush
Subject: RE: BS: MORE credit for Bush
Absolutely predictable response from our "tolerant" fans out there. I would have been rather disapointed had it not been forthcoming.

As to who gets the credit for "ending" the Vietnam debacle (please don't assume that "Conservatives" stereotypically think that 'Nam was a great idea in the first place); now let's see...
It essentially started under JFK, didn't it? and it raged on through the Administration of Johnson, who was a...a... ah yes; a Democrat as well, no? And it finally had it's ugly plug pulled (at least as far as the US was concerned) under the Administration of "Tricky Dick" Nixon, a Republican.
Now RN may have spoken with forked tounge nigh on as much as Clinton towards the end, there; he just wasn't nearly as profficient at it. But he did bring our (surviving) troops back from 'Nam. And we are told that the protest/activists are to get the credit for this? They probably were a factor, I will concede, but as I recall the rest of the Country was getting pretty fed up with the whole thing, too, and the hell-raising hipsters and weed-burners surely don't deserve the percentage of the credit reputed above.
We're getting to ye, arn't we "VAM" (or whoever you are; you certainly project an impression of fortitude and ferocity from behind that curtain of anonymity!)? Must be gitting awful close to a soft spot, eh?
OK, MAV; finish 'im off!

Sweet dreams, all!
Uncle J. clear & "Z" in ME