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“Subject: I got your Vietnam analogies

This should seem familiar to everyone.

During the Vietnam War:

-The anti-war crowd portrayed the administration as evil and un-caring.
-John Kerry used the anti-war movement for his personal, political aspirations.
-Ignorant comparisons were made between the President and Hitler.
-No thought was given to the consequences the South Vietnamese people would suffer if we immediately pulled out our troops.
-The morale of our troops overseas suffered because of the anti-war movement’s actions at home while the enemy’s resolve was bolstered.
-The left proclaimed that the South Vietnamese people would be better off under the North’s rule instead of being subjected to U.S. intervention.
-All enemies of freedom called the U.S. efforts imperialistic.
-Industry greed was claimed to be the main reason for the war.
-The administration was accused of manufacturing its reasons for the war.
-Hollywood celebrities received much free publicity by speaking out against the war, and most of Hollywood was adamantly against it.
-A major network’s anchorman lost his objectivity and proclaimed the war to be a losing enterprise.
-Grieving families of killed servicemen lashed out angrily at the government.
-American Colleges and Universities were a festering cesspool of leftist, anti-war propaganda.
-”Make Love, Not War” was a simplistic sound-bite thought to be very, very clever.
-American troops were claimed to come, unfairly, only from lower-income families.
-The leftists treated the U.N. as a legitimate, intelligent, governing body that would act in our country’s best interests.
-Atrocities committed by the North Vietnamese were downplayed and under-reported by the three major networks.
-Servicemen’s efforts at humanitarian aid were ignored in favor of body counts and negative war images.
-Congress busied itself with finger pointing and witch-hunting.”