The distinctly liberal Dan Froomkin writes the "White House Briefing" column for the Washington Post's web site. Here, in its entirety, is the last item in Froomkin's Friday column:
How long did your New Year's Resolutions last?
Bush's didn't make it a day.
Bush was telling reporters last week about how his thoughts were with the troops when he volunteered: "People always ask me about a New Year's resolution -- my resolution is, is that they'll be safe. . . . "
The Department of Defense reports: "Sgt. Thomas E. Vandling Jr., 26, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died Jan. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat patrol."
Bush made a mistake by categorizing his hope for the troops' safety as a New Year's resolution; nonetheless, Froomkin's exploitation of said mistake is nasty and cheap.
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Disgustingly Outrageous! Disg
January 5, 2007 - 16:04 ET by bigtimerDisgustingly Outrageous! Disgraceful, this is beyond a cheap shot!
May he (Dan F.) rot where the sun doesn't shine...along with the treasonous Post for publishing the filth...nothing new for these enemies within, they will never stop.
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General Giap loved the left wing MSM
January 5, 2007 - 16:21 ET by Carl KolchakThe left wing MSM likes to make comparison between Iraq and Vietnam, so here's some comparisons for the left wing MSM. Froomkim seems to be extremly excited a US soldier died in 2007. The enemy sees that and will feed off it. General Giap in his memoirs was going to offer a "conditional surrender" after the failure of the Tet Offensive. However, he saw the left wing MSM was his ally and the antiwar movement was also his ally. Froomkim and his left wing counterparts should lay just as much blame at their own feet as they seem to be laying at Bush's.
Checkout these quotes from the below link.
"Giap admitted in his memoirs that news media reporting of the war and the antiwar demonstrations that ensued in America surprised him. Instead of negotiating what he called a "conditional surrender," Giap said they would now go the limit because America's resolve was weakening and the possibility of complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp.
Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, he made clear that the antiwar movement in the United States (which led to the collapse of political will in Washington) was "essential to our strategy." "
http://www.jfednepa.org/mark%20silverberg/measure_nation.html
"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane" Waylon Jennings
Might be an urban legend
January 6, 2007 - 03:41 ET by Carl KolchakI know that the Tet Offensive was a complete military disaster for Giap, and that the Viet Cong were essentially eliminated after it, and the left wing MSM played it up like it was a victory for Giap, but in an effort to try to learn more about Giap's memoirs, it appears this may or may not be an urban legend. I am not a fan of urban legends, so I can't say definatly if these memoirs actually exist or not. However, I have found a link to an interview with Bui Tin in which he answers questions.
Here are a few quotes from the link below.
"Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam's army, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam. He now lives in Paris, where he immigrated after becoming disillusioned with the fruits of Vietnamese communism."
"Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us."
http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/north.asp
"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane" Waylon Jennings
I don't read the WaPo and I'v
January 5, 2007 - 18:15 ET by rimskyI don't read the WaPo and I've never heard of this Froomkin bird... just as well.. how utterly dispicable to say such a thing.
There's a huge difference between a resolution and a Prayful wish, which is IMO a better way to describe the President's comment.