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GENERAL GIAP AND CONGRESSMAN MURTHA
by Henry Mark Holzer
 I’ve just finished reorganizing some of my Election 2004 essays. One,
about John Kerry’s anti-war activities and the North Vietnamese,
struck me because of how it applies today to opportunists like Jack
Murtha, leftover Marxists, airhead celebrities, America haters, and
virtually the entire Democratic congressional and party leadership.
Here’s what Erika Holzer and I wrote two years ago:
"Fox News Channel has just reported that “in his 1985 memoir about the
[Vietnam]war, communist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren’t
for organizations like Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi
would have surrendered to the United States.” This is not the first
time Vietnamese communist leaders have credited the anti-War movement
in the United States with bolstering the formers determination to stay
the course."
"In our “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, we
wrote that “Fonda’s trip to Hanoi sent a message not only to the
American public, but to the North Vietnamese as well.” Here is an
exchange between The Wall Street Journal and Col. Bui Tin, a dedicated
Communist cadre for most of his life, and one of the first officers of
the North Vietnamese army to enter Saigon on the day it fell."
"Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi’s victory?"
"A: It was essential to our strategy. Support for the war from our
rear [from China] was completely secure while the American rear was
vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over
the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar
movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda . . . gave us
confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.
We were elated when Jane Fonda . . . said at a press conference that
she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would
struggle along with us." (Emphasis added).
"Q: Did the politburo pay attention to these visits?"
"A: Keenly."
"Q: Why?"
"A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience
of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning
that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy;
through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to
win."
"Bui Tin was wrong, and he was right."
"He was wrong that the Fondas, Haydens, Spocks, Zinns, Lanes,
Clarks—and the John Kerrys— 'represented the conscience of America.'
To the contrary, they and their protests—the Fonda/Kerry Winter
Soldier Investigation, the Dewey Canyon III protest, among
others—represented the unpatriotic dark corner of American society.
Their lies about our conduct of the war knew no bounds, their hatred
of our country no limits."
"But Bui Tin was correct that opposition to the war—with John Kerry,
who would be President and Commander-in-Chief, in the vanguard—sapped
our strength and greatly contributed not only abstractly to 'America’s
loss,' but concretely to the loss of some 58,000 American lives,
countless more psychologically and physically wounded, and literally
millions of Southeast Asians murdered."
"While [despite the clamor of many on the Right] candidate Kerry is
not guilty of constitutional/criminal treason, he is guilty of
undermining our war effort and his opposition, in turn, caused
Americans (and others) to die. As novelist Nelson DeMille said in
endorsing “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam: “As a
combat infantry officer in Vietnam, I can attest to the fact that Jane
Fonda, and people like her, succeeded very well in lowering troop
morale, and as any combat vet will tell you, low morale leads to
lowered effectiveness, and that leads to battlefield deaths.”
(Emphasis added).
"Bui Tin’s 'those people' and 'people like Jane Fonda,' and Nelson
DeMille’s 'people like her,' is simply another way of referring to
John Kerry. And when the full truth reaches the American people about
how Kerry and his cronies’ anti-War activities harmed not only
American interests, but also gravely injured his countrymen, Kerry
should be roundly repudiated and decisively defeated in his quest for
the presidency—not because he committed treason, but because he is
morally unfit to lead this country, let alone troops. "
Which brings us to the upcoming congressional elections.
If the Republicans are going to turn those elections into referenda on
the War on Radical Islam generally and the War in Iraq in particular,
as they now seem to be doing, it behooves them to name names and to
paint those names with the color they deserve: yellow. It behooves the
Republicans to accuse the Pelosis, Murthas, Deans, and the rest of
their craven, defeatist, opportunistic, and UN-loving cohort of
undercutting our nation in wartime, weakening our resolve, and thus
sending a message to our enemies that if only they hang on in the end
they will prevail.
As terrible as the outcome in Vietnam was, a similar result in the
Middle East will be even worse.
And if that happens, two or three decades from now, Osama bin Laden
will be able to write in his memoirs, as Col. Bui Tin did, that
“[t]hose people [Murtha, Pelosi, Dean, et al.] represented the
conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its
war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor.
America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it
lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.”
Unfortunately, history does tend to repeat itself.
[from
TheConservativeVoice.com]
Boot Murtha Rally billboard
now in Johnstown, PA
Talk about visibility! Here are some photos (click to enlarge) of the
Vets for the Truth billboard in Johnstown. Murtha's hometown is the
location for our Oct. 1st Boot Murtha Rally. You can read more about
our Rally here.
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