No One Rewrites History Like A Kennedy

It takes someone with the Donkey credentials of Teddy Kennedy to so blatantly rewrite history and someone as “objective” as Tim Russert to ignore his assertions to make for a truly signature episode of “Meet the Press”. Newsbusters fortunately has a good synopsis of Kennedy’s assertions.

As you know, one of my greatest pet peeves is when history is distorted to suit an individual agenda, especially a Leftist one like Kennedy’s.

Here were the juiciest little tidbits of his tirade with Tim.

“You know, Tim, as of this week, American forces will have been in Iraq as long as America was in the Korean peninsula in the Korean war.”

One would hope that alcohol and whatever other drugs he might imbibe hasn’t rotted Teddy’s brains so much that he’s unaware of the fact that the war was ended not with a treaty, but with a ceasefire (much like the Gulf War). Korea is still an active conflict, hence why we still have troops policing the South Korea side of the DMZ. Hence why there even is a DMZ. The Korean War is well over fifty years old and counting and has never been resolved.

But I’m sure Teddy would point out that this isn’t what he was referring to, merely that he was referring to the period of active hostilities during the Korean War. This also is a poor comparison, actually no comparison, because the current Iraq War is not at “war footing” and has devolved into a low-level guerilla insurgency by former Baathists, foreign fanatics and disaffected Sunnis (probably the smallest of the enemy forces) for some time. This devolution falters by the day, whereas Korea has been in a stalemate since 1952. But why let facts get in the way of a pathetic comparison? By making the correlation with the Korean War, not necessarily a “win” in the annals of history, Kennedy gets the twofer of implanting in some minds that the situation will last as long and as needlessly as Korea and is as hopeless for a speedy resolution, while at the same time casting aspersions that U.S. policy is as open-ended and directionless as it was after the Korean Conflict dropped off into its current state.

No, it’s easier to make things up out of whole cloth than try and genuinely debate the issue, perhaps because Kennedy has no real or legitimate argument he can make other than “We can’t let Republicans look good or we’ll never get our socialist party back into power”. That, at least, would be an honest argument.

In response to Tim Russert’s question: “If we got out and there was a civil war, chaos and you saw al Qaeda moving in in record numbers and Zarqawi exerting great control over the country, would you go back in?”

Kennedy responded: “Well, first of all, I heard the same kinds of suggestions at the time of the end of the Vietnam War: ‘the great blood bath. We're going to have over 100,000 people that were going to be murdered and killed at that time.’ And for those of us that were strongly opposed to the war heard those same kinds of arguments at the time.”

Kennedy acts as if he and his Leftist colleagues were proven right by what happened after South Vietnam fell. In fact, he is more culpable for the deaths of all the “reeducated” South Vietnamese, Cambodians and other southeast Asians who died during the communist bloodbaths than any living U.S. politician. He was there in Congress at the time and voted to sacrifice them all in the name of politics, just as he’s currently trying to do with the Iraqis.

But again, facts and the consequences of his actions in the face of history mean nothing to this man, if you can call him that. This pathetic drunkard only cares about the power he believes so rightly is his and that of his party’s. He lost all contact with his constituency and reality when the Khmer Rouge and others like them began the wholesale slaughter of over a million of their fellow Cambodians to prove they truly were “communists in a hurry” and he did nothing. In fact, he and others like him praised themselves and patted themselves on the back for getting the U.S. out of a war that his brother largely started. Worse, he abandoned innocent human beings, just as he’s trying to now, to a gruesome and needless death just to score points in the game of American politics.

Words fail to describe how sleazy or just plain filthy one must be to believe and to have acted on such things as Kennedy has done. In Kennedy's case, he is a liar and murderer with blood on his hands and no amount of shaking his fist at Bush or the rest of us will stay the fact that blood rains from his fingertips like a sprinkler system painting his accusations as the hypocritical hatred they really are. Normally, I like to give people on the opposite side of the debate the benefit of the doubt and operate from the assumption that we are all Americans and want what's best for us. With Kennedy, I have found that to make such an assumption is a waste of time, and the weight of history bears that out.

If you have reason to doubt, or if you have reason to question the motivations and facts of what has happened and what must be done in U.S. foreign policy in recent years, do so without relying upon the likes of Kennedy and his ilk, and the willing accomplices like Russert who freely let them spew their bile for all to see. Their complicity with what could only be described as pure evil in the world has eliminated their legitimacy and washed away their humanity. Agree or disagree with foreign policy based on the legitimate needs of the United States, but when you do, do it without the burden of such peoples’ “opinions” and dark history to way down your thoughts. It will not help you answer the questions of history anymore than reading Hitler’s speeches will give you a true history of the Jews, Gypsies or Catholics. It’s just pure propaganda.