Comments on: VIETNAM LESSONS – NOT LEARNED ONCE AGAIN! http://www.calledtoservevietnam.com/blog/2007/08/28/vietnam-lessons-not-learned-once-again/ Called to Serve: Stories of the Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tom Weiner http://www.calledtoservevietnam.com/blog/2007/08/28/vietnam-lessons-not-learned-once-again/#comment-27 Tom Weiner Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:52:40 +0000 http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog/2007/08/28/vietnam-lessons-not-learned-once-again/#comment-27 The list goes on and the rhetoric is endless with never an indication that anyone in the current administration learned anything about why making war against a country that has not threatened us and then occupying it (a la Vietnam) is a prescription for disaster. Now there is a demand for some accountability about the billions that have been wasted in the so-called reconstruction effort with much of the money going to administration cronies and to Cheney's former company, Halliburton. And rather than ever acknowledge that mistakes were and are being made, that terrible tragedies have befallen countless Iraqi and American families, what we hear is essentially "stay the (totally failed) course" and Vietnam is held up an example of what went wrong when we didn't rather than providing its true lesson that you cannot impose your will on a people. It would be monumentally absurd and unbelievable were it not horribly affecting so many people... Thanks for taking the time to reply... Tom August 30th The list goes on and the rhetoric is endless with never an indication that anyone in the current administration learned anything about why making war against a country that has not threatened us and then occupying it (a la Vietnam) is a prescription for disaster. Now there is a demand for some accountability about the billions that have been wasted in the so-called reconstruction effort with much of the money going to administration cronies and to Cheney’s former company, Halliburton. And rather than ever acknowledge that mistakes were and are being made, that terrible tragedies have befallen countless Iraqi and American families, what we hear is essentially “stay the (totally failed) course” and Vietnam is held up an example of what went wrong when we didn’t rather than providing its true lesson that you cannot impose your will on a people. It would be monumentally absurd and unbelievable were it not horribly affecting so many people…
Thanks for taking the time to reply…
Tom
August 30th

]]> By: Diane Clancy http://www.calledtoservevietnam.com/blog/2007/08/28/vietnam-lessons-not-learned-once-again/#comment-26 Diane Clancy Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:55:41 +0000 http://www.vietnamwardraftstories.com/blog/2007/08/28/vietnam-lessons-not-learned-once-again/#comment-26 This is very painful - both the talk about Vietnam and Iraq itself. I am not positive what we should be doing in Iraq ~ I felt from the beginning we should not go in. I worked and called and called to try to stop that. But I am very tired of the rhetoric - especially from the President who does not seem to care about the real people - whether US soldiers, the Iraqi people or those at home in the US whose lives are impacted through not enough money to do what needs to happen here with health care, schools, care for the vets from Iraq ... and the list goes on!! ~ Diane Clancy www.dianeclancy.com/blog This is very painful – both the talk about Vietnam and Iraq itself. I am not positive what we should be doing in Iraq ~ I felt from the beginning we should not go in. I worked and called and called to try to stop that. But I am very tired of the rhetoric – especially from the President who does not seem to care about the real people – whether US soldiers, the Iraqi people or those at home in the US whose lives are impacted through not enough money to do what needs to happen here with health care, schools, care for the vets from Iraq … and the list goes on!!

~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog

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