In my Dec. 6, 2005 American Thinker article I talked about the Democratic Party/MsM's desire to bring back the days of Vietnam and Watergate:
"Yesterday, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean declared that the U.S. cannot win the war in Iraq. In an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio, Dean said, '[The] idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong...I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory. Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening'
(What was really happening back then was a New Left-engineered drive to affect a Communist victory in Vietnam.) Chairman Dean then attempted to link the Bush Administration to Watergate-style corruption by saying, 'What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate. It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for the power to go to war.'
So there, you have it - the Iraq master plan of the Democratic Party laid bare: Paint the war effort as a total failure thereby forcing America into a repeat of Vietnam, followed by Watergate II.
For years, I have deeply suspected that the Democratic Party and the 60's-era hacks controlling it cling to a badly distorted view of America. The latest statements by two of the Party's biggest players, John Kerry and Howard Dean, confirm my suspicion. Like the rest of the Democrat leadership, Dean and Kerry equate the U.S. Military with Vietnam-style defeat and generally believe that the actions of the United States of America during any war are, at best, suspect.
That's understandable, since many of these un-American leftists, including Dean and the deplorable Kerry, who recently called American soldiers terrorists, were steeped in a warped values system that once made it highly fashionable to openly hate America, spit on its flag and throw feces at those who carried that flag into battle."
The New York Times latest ploy to besmirch Bush, by insinuating that he illegally spied on ordinary Americans, is a prime example of the media- Left's "get-Bush-at-all-costs" sickness, its blatant disregard for the safety and security of all Americans and its desire to return to the days when it could influence national policy by misrepresenting facts and events with very little fear of being publicly exposed.
Had it been ten short years ago, when the Internet was barely more than a figment of Al Gore's imagination, the Times would have very likely gotten away with its NSA canard and by now Americans would be well on their way to believing that George W. Bush had indeed engaged in illegal surveillance of innocent, ordinary, American citizens.
However, unfortunately for the tall-tale-telling leftwing Times, the internet has once again proved to be a weapon of Mainstream Media destruction--one that can be quickly launched by anyone with a laptop, an internet connection, a conscience and curiosity.
Within a day of the release of the Times' NSA pseudo-bombshell, documents surfaced in cyberspace proving that Presidents Carter and Clinton had made use of the same and similar tools and methods as Bush to protect America from its enemies.
Soon thereafter, legal experts, including Clinton associate attorney general John Schmidt, vouched for the legality of Bush's use of the surveillance program in question.
Now, once again, a New York Times attempt to destroy the Bush presidency, this time by recreating Watergate, has crashed headlong into a wall of truth.
Being the slightly unhinged, close-minded myopic snobs that they are, the Times' elite management and its back-pedaling reporters are no doubt scratching their heads wondering why their latest effort to derail Bush is failing--understandable behavior for people who think they're slicker and smarter than everyone else when, in fact, they're not.
