Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:04:00 PM
I received this as a forwarded email. I haven't seen it anywhere else. It is from Retired Air Force Colonel Earl Heal to the President and others on Feb 3, 2007:
The discussion with a Congressman last night was interesting when Mr. Bill O’Reilly on Fox News made a comparison to Neville Chamberlain and current failures of liberals to recognize a threat to the nation. May I suggest an even more significant comparison that may be better understood because it is more recent.
From a military perspective there are few comparisons between Viet Nam and Iraq , but the similarities politically are scary. America had essentially won the Viet Nam war by February 1968 with the success over the Tet Offensive. Do not take the word of a military officer on this because the liberals treat us as liars. Will they take the word of General Giap, senior officer of North Viet Nam ? Or perhaps the officer who took command of Siagon when it fell in April 1975? Their statements have been published repeatedly and more recently in the Wall Street Journal. Both gentlemen said unequivocally that after the Tet disaster, they were finished and would have quit the battle, except they began to realize the effect of the liberals, and by name Jane Fonda and John Kerry, on America ’s political front. Instead of closing the war by perhaps 1969 with 40,000 KIA’s, the war dragged on for years and killed another 20,000 Americans, America’s diplomatic strength was crushed, and our military morale was decimated. The next result was that over a million Cambodians were killed, and an unknown number of South Vietnamese. In a classified briefing at the time, we knew that 1,000 South Vietnamese in Danang alone were executed the first night of North Viet Nam ’s takeover just to show who was in charge. Of course, the public never heard of these atrocities. History can not deny that the blood of these people rests on the hands of those liberals who denied the politicians the strength to finish the war.
Now we are engaged again in the critical phase in the battle to free people from tyranny and by promoting democracy, make our world safer. Must we again force the military to walk away when the battle can be won? Those that know not history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. I realize many Americans are ignorant of knowing that the Viet Nam was not lost until we quit and they, in that ignorance, can be forgiven. We must never be forgiving, however, of our leaders who have the responsibility to know. I do not believe many of them are ignorant, I believe they are willing to sell their soul to win political power. Senator Boxer voted on the Joint Resolution of Congress that cited 23 reasons for engaging Iraq , only four of those reasons cited future expectations of WMD use by Iraq . Yet, she vilified Secretary Rice in the confirmation hearings for Rice by saying Rice led us to war only for WMD concerns. A nephew of mine is one of the 3,000 KIAs. Yet he was, and I am, proud of his work. If his sacrifice becomes a waste because of these misguided and self serving politicians, I can only hope their souls burn in hell.
The highlights are mine. Thanks to Curt Dale for forwarding it to me. I found his forwarding message equally interesting:
Since I see Colonel Heal has sent this to President Bush, Hannity, and his son Ray, I'm going to share it with a lot of folks who might be interested in the thoughts of one of my favorite people. Colonel Earl Heal is one of my comrades to arms. We flew B-57F "Longwings" out of Albuquerque together for a tour, then when I went to DaNang for my "long tour," he was next door at Monkey Mountain, running rescues of downed airmen from Queen Control. So he knows whereof he writes. Superb pilot, magnificent officer. I consider Earl, Dana Kelly and Vern Duenas the BEST! I flew a lot of missions with them, and they were consumate airmen. I think Earl's thoughts are totally on target. Listening to Hillary lay out her plans to confiscate the oil companies' earnings and give them to the Government if she is elected President and listening to the 18 items in the Democratic plan of action as laid out by Nancy Pelozi and Harry Reid, we'd better get busy and make sure this radical left wing el ement of that Party get put their aggressive Socialist agenda out of action quickly, or this nation is in big trouble. In the last few days, I have become more frightened for our nation than in many years.
Please read what Colonel Heal has to say. Curt Dale