William C. Westmoreland
07.19.05American Soldier has posted about the great military leader, William C. Westmoreland, passing on recently. He gives you a bit of his background, and few more famous quotes by the man. Run over and give it a read.
Here are the 3 quotes he lists, and they are completely true.
“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”
“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
“Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.”
the last one sticks out the most to me. The stupid liberal media can twist and bend anything to what they want us to see.
# July 19th, 2005 at 4:24 pmIn my local commie-loving daily newspaper (the Lincoln Journal Star,) they carried an AP article about Gen. Westmoreland’s life and death. Their first paragraph reads as such:
“Retired Gen. Willam Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. troops in Vietnam - the nation’s longest, most divisive conflict and the only war America lost - died Monday night. He was 91.”
Since when did we lose Vietnam? Last time I checked, we left because the effort was undermined by our good commie-loving friends. You can’t be considered the loser of a war where you won every single engagement and never surrendered. Obviously, the Bolshevik b*tch that wrote this article (Bruce Smith) has no respect for America’s generals. You don’t eulogize a general by saying he fought on the losing side of a war that his country didn’t lose. To make up drivel like that and pass it off as “fact” in such an article borders on treason.
# July 20th, 2005 at 1:05 pmIn all fairness, I think, Westmoreland was a complete idiot. He is the reason we lost Vietnam (and yes, we did lose it, Evan, we lost the political battles, which matter more than the gun battles). See, he was fighting that war like he was fighting World War Two, which it wasn’t. When Abrams took over in 1968, we finally started to see some real progress, but by then it was too late because of the troop withdrawals that started next year.
# July 10th, 2006 at 1:03 pm