Hey, older DUers...remember this quote?

[progressoid]

"As South Vietnamese forces become stronger, the rate of American withdrawal can become greater."
-- Richard Nixon --


35 years later, they were able to shorten this to a more manageable sound bite: "as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down"
Wow. What progress.

[Solly Mack]

1. They...they being Bush's speech writers...have scoured

other speeches from past Presidents during a time of war and have "borrowed" phrases, words, terms, etc to use

I recall an article talking about how Bush used some phrases from FDR's speeches....changed a round a bit...in a speech Bush gave...might have even been a state of the union address.

[progressoid]

3. Yep, original ideas are not at the top of their "skills" list

[bigbrother05]

2. Kissinger at his best(?), only strategy is victory.

[progressoid]

4. That big ole Kissinger head keeps popping up.

And it's never good.

[cwydro]

5. it is amazing

that they cannot see the parallels.....

[Javaman]

6. Time heals all wounds...

but not all wounds heal over time.

did I say today how much I loath and completely dispise that fraud* in Washington?

colossal racist fucktard failure*

[demwing]

7. Is this what we'll be seeing?

The last helicopter out of Iraq?

[bdamomma]

8. hey remember you guys Bushie is getting his points from

Kissinger, and apparently these guys have a vendetta cuz the US pulled out of that failured war of Vietnam. They are playing from the same playbook.

[progressoid]

9. And from that same playbook - we (liberals) will be blamed for the Iraq

debacle too.

Pathetic.

[Keepontruking]

10. all

we keep saying is give Peace a chance................Circus
girl

[progressoid]

11. He would have been 66...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2350647

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Anyone surprised? It's the exact same fucking people

It wouldn't shock me one bit to find out LeMay is still alive and orchestrating the Iraq craptacular.

[Jacobin]

13. "Vietnamization" of the war, it was called

The hubris of trying to turn a country into what it already is.

That worked well....:eyes:

[hang a left]

14. The real sad part about me being here is

I clicked on a thread that said "Older DUers".

[progressoid]

15. Sorry. I couldn't come up with a more delicate way to say it!

I was just a punk kid during that war.

[hang a left]

16. I was born in 1960 so I don't remember much about what Nixon said

However I do remember having a POW bracelet as a teen.

[progressoid]

17. 1960 - same as my wife. 1963 for me. Guess we're in the same boat.

[MamaBear]

19. I remember that s.o.b.

I remember all too well. No Bush has ever had an original, creative or even honest position to present to the public. And I never did trust Nixon anyway.

I'm from 1950 ... I was ten years old when Kennedy debated Nixon on the television machine. And I still remember watching it and talking to my Mom about it.

The sad part of it for me is that we thought when he resigned we had forced him out, and that when we passed some legislation about campaign finance the problem was fixed and we could start our lives at last, finally out from under a threatening political cloud that hung over us all the time.

Silly us.

[many a good man]

18. Phase III