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emdeplume@hush.com

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:21:01 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:04:21 -0800, wrote:

The open question is how many acts of war does it take before you have
a war.
This is Obama's "Cambodia".

Again with the VN war reference. It's a bit long in the tooth. Find
another analogy.

It is hard to find examples of obfuscation, duplicity and futility
like this without invoking Vietnam.

There's no comparison between Obama and LBJ/Nixon. Sorry.

For some of us, that was not really very long ago and we remember the
lies. The people who remember the lies most vividly are the soldiers
who saw it happening right in front of them with their ass on the line

In any case, this has nothing to do with Obama. He isn't the one who's
lying or lied about either war.

Then like now. the government lied about the mission, they lied about
the progress and in the end they lied about what we actually hoped to
achieve.

Which administration? Bush, I agree. He lied.

I know you are young and got caught up in the rhetoric but some of us
are old enough to be having our "you can fool us once ..." moment.

Sure. Whatever.