To all Lurking Repukes: Just who is "soft" on defense?

[TruthIsAll]

Was Wilson soft when he entered WW1?
Was FDR soft when he defeated Germany?
Was HST soft when he defeated Japan?
Was HST soft when he got a U.N. coalition to stop North Korea?
Was JFK soft when he got Khruschev to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Was LBJ soft when he expanded the war in Vietnam?
Was Clinton soft when the U.N. coalition was victorious in Kosovo and not one American soldier died in action?

How many Democrats in the Senate and Congress served in the armed forces?
How many Republicans in the Senate and Congress served in the armed forces?

How many Democratic presidents went AWOL?
How many Republican presidents went AWOL?

How many Democratic presidents started a unilateral war without U.N. approval?
How many Republican presidents started a unilateral war without U.N. approval?

Republican chickenhawk cowards like AWOL Bush are soft on defense. They are strong on cronyism, however.

[grannylib]

1. Good post!

[oasis]

2. But..but..but Reagan toppled the Soviets with his threat of star wars.

[MinnFats]

10. No, he didn't

communism toppled under the weight of its own incompetence.
that, and the fact that Gorbachev did not unleash the tanks.
finally, communism toppled as George Bush Sr. stood by and watched, basically did nothing

[proud patriot]

3. This is a great idea for LTTE

boy that would get all the local freeps frothing
hee hee :evilgrin:

[funkyflathead]

4. Clinton used airplanes almost exclusively

I consider that soft and with good reason. A ground war- and Bill was smart enough to know this- would have been costly.


Compare that to the blank in the WH currently.

[LoZoccolo]

5. My favorite Ann Coulter quote.

Why? Because it shows that Ann Coulter doesn't think her audience knows rudimentary U.S. history.

Whenever America is threatened from outside, Republicans have a lock on the Oval Office. No matter how secure the world seems, after 9-11 you have to vote for the better man on national defense. That is always the Republican.

Um, what? World War II? Cuban missle crisis? Who?

And notice that democrats were elected in the next elections after those events. Does she think that her readers are that uneducated?

I told a conservative about this and they tried to tell me that one of the things she could be talking about is the Iran hostage crisis.

:eyes:

I tried to argue that America wasn't threatened from the outside by that, and then they said that people felt threatened, and after that it's really no use arguing who felt what. But it still leaves open how she could skip over WWII and the cuban missle crisis.

The full column here:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20030508.shtml

[rwenos]

6. Pubbie Distaste for The Real Thing

You're right, of course you're right. The thing Pubbies least want is actually to GO TO WAR!

I made the mistake once of suggesting a (conservative) friend, who spoke fluent French and decent German, take his Glock 9mm and go to Kosovo to fight the bad guys. (He had been impressing chicks with grandiose statements about how he was gonna "get some" over there.)

I told him, "I think you should go. You're in your early 30's, you speak a couple of different languages, you're single, you've been talking about this for a couple of years, you like guns, you crave adventure. Go. Have a Hemingway-esque adventure and come home and write a book about it."

He said nothing. He didn't go. This was in 1997. He has never spoken to me again, to this day.

[Occulus]

8. What a SHOCK.

Not.

[Cleita]

7. Thank you for this list.

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