See the video or read the entire transcript of tonight’s Special Comment from Keith Olbermann here. “Lessons from the Vietnam War,” rivaled in excellence the recent postings of Jeff Huber and Larry Johnson about what Bush claims we learned from Vietnam (“We’ll succeed unless we quit.”). The overarching lesson, of course, is that we DID quit, albeit many years too late.
We stopped endlessly squandering lives and treasure and the focus of a nation on an impossible and irrelevant dream, but you are still doing exactly that, tonight, in Iraq….
We will succeed against terrorism, for our country’s needs, toward binding up the nation’s wounds when you quit, quit the monumental lie that is our presence in Iraq.
And in the interim, Mr. Bush, an American kid will be killed there, probably tonight or — if we’re lucky — tomorrow.
Video and transcript on Crooks and Liars
Caught the last couple of minutes on the “Countdown” repeat — but I’ve got it on the DVR and will watch the whole thing shortly. But from what I heard, I’ve just got three words:
HOLY F–KING CRAP!!!!!
Good stuff. Thanks for the link.
Ya think they watch? Nah.
He also gives me a lot of hope. I am so very grateful for his voice out there in the news.
The figure for Vietnamese killed by unexploded ordinance since the end of the war is over 30,000, not the 10,000 that KO cites. 64,000 injured as well….the rate today for casualties still exceeds a thousand per year, and estimates are that 80% of the pre-75 UXOs are still out there waiting…