Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>Any thoughts how much worse things will get if we cut and run as the dems want??<<<


Has a familiar ring to it...


President Nixon, November 3, 1969:

For the future of peace, precipitate withdrawal would thus be a disaster of immense magnitude.

A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and lets down its friends. Our defeat and humiliation in South Vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peace-in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in the Western Hemisphere.



PRESIDENT JOHNSON, July 28, 1965:

But we will not surrender. And we will not retreat. We intend to convince the Communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms or by superior power. I have asked the commanding general, General Westmoreland, what more he needs to meet this mounting aggression. He has told me, and we will meet his needs.


GENERAL WESTMORELAND: Very very encouraged. I've never been more encouraged during my entire, almost four years in this country. I think we're making real progress. Everybody is very optimistic that I know of, who is intimately associated with our effort there.

Although some enemy units are still occupying positions in a few cities, they are rapidly being driven out."

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/12/contemporaneous-government-statements.html