It's true-History does repeat itself.

That was a really, really nice piece of work. Congrats! Keep it up!

4th Infantry, Vietnam

Wonderful! Unfortunately, all too true.

Very astutely said. Like Q: "How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? A: "Nobody knows, it has never been tried".
I'm glad our country can still find a few good men and women who will shoulder the burden of keeping us free.

Uh. The liberals are not totally crazy.

Some would like to end the Government Cocaine Price Support and Gang Finance Program. Did I mention it also supports terrorists?

Now you know that any price support program is socialist at heart.

Why do conservatives support it? Why are liberals against it?

Well here is one conservative who does not. It does get kind of lonely. OTOH I get called a lot of names so the effort is not totally in vain.

Fantabulous!!! Power Line and LGF need links to this.

Nice poetry.. lousy political statement. I find it interesting that the conservatives in America refuse to fight the war. I mean actually fight the war. As idiotic as it looked, Bush is up there during his inaugural address telling young people to join up while his two daughters sit there willing to do absolutely nothing.

No one has hamstrung the police or anyone. Do you know how this works? Any law that people want to challenge ultimately becomes a Constitutional issue. Remember that document? Isn't that what we are fighting for? How about the basic premise of that document that says all rights are inalienable and the Government HAS NO RIGHTS except those given to it by the populous. The populous can take them back at any time. So, are these "handcuffs" you talk about things like Meranda rights, or maybe it is the laws against unlawful search and seizure? What specifically is it you protest?

You must have been saddenned the day the Soviet Union came down. Now there was a good Government not handcuffed at all.

Outstanding poem. Couldn't agree more.

Kevin, plenty of us conservatives spent decades mouthing all your dogma. That dog don't hunt no more. Give it up -- you look stupid.

Thank you for your service, Sir.
We are fighting the same war in the sense we are fighting the MEDIA. I think I get it and while liberals take things so literaly in order to attack, I get your point. How did we create such a monster in the MSM?

Peg:

The Constitution is Dogma? It doesn't "hunt" anymore? And who looks stupid? It is funny that when the "socialist" aspect of Communism is discussed by liberals about the only thing a Conservative wing nut will say is, "Well if you like it so much, go live there".

So, I say to you, there are plenty of Countries around the world that believe the rights of the citizens being protected is "dogma". There are plenty of Countries where the police can randomly search and seize, arrest and hold without charge, and torture a la Gitmo. Peg, why don't you move to one of those Countries?

In the meantime, leave the CONSTITUTION alone. Read the Federalist Papers. Perhaps you should read the words and think about them.

Crapola! How many liberals lost their lives in World War II? As a Green Beret said on TV during Nam war: you know a war is a just war when you don't find many folks trying to keep out of it.

Kevin, lest you forget, the terrorists aren't citizens of the USA and the constitution doesn't apply to them. You've got your "rights" confused. You're the one who needs to do your homework. Mr. Vaughn's point is lost on people like you...those who want to make it harder for our own soldiers and easier for the terrorists. Your tune would be different if you were the one defending the people of this country. "Support for the troops" is more that just words.

Kevin, our citizens' rights are being protected just fine. Our safety is not, thanks to you and your ilk. As for Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, get over it. Go whine somewhere else; this is war. You people are NOT SERIOUS.

This is a wonderful poem that completely captures the mentality of the idiotic MSM. Thank goodness they don't rule the land.

conservatives lost Vietnam
Lost China

Lost Iraq OOPS not lost yet you say?
and 1300 dead Gis for WMD you say?

Conservatives didnt lose China. It happened on the watch of one of my favorite presidents — Truman. The war in Vietnam was started and escalated under Kennedy and Johnson. One should not judge these as party losses but as national losses. we all lose. Some in more ways than others.

Think of how devisive what you say is. Your statement shows more about what I think is wrong with the thinking of political hacks in this country. We are Americans. we share a commonality that is truly underestimated and in most ways misunderstood.

The true disgrace is that the same people calling most for unity and complain most about how "divided" the country is, are the ones who are committing the most divisive acts and make the most divisive statements.

When Lincoln won the civil war was it a win for the Republican party or was it a victory for the entire country?

This methodology of thinking is simply childish

"I find it interesting that the conservatives in America refuse to fight the war. I mean actually fight the war. As idiotic as it looked, Bush is up there during his inaugural address telling young people to join up while his two daughters sit there willing to do absolutely nothing."

That's one of the weakest arguments I've ever heard.

I just can just visualize it now. A private talking to a General about how pocking cowardly he is and dishonest, for advocating strategies and plans that PUT him, the private, in danger while the General sits back at the HQ.

That private is going to be fraged, that is what I visualize. In war time, any private with that kind of thoughts and stupid enough to utter them so far up the chain of command, is as good as dead. It's not like they can bust him down any, and there ain't any prisons to put him.

The reason why civilians get away with it is because they abuse free speech. They say outrageous things like, "I mean actually fight the war." These people don't even know how to fight a war and they think they are exhalted enough to decide the best use of people's lives, honor, and talents.

These people actually want an aristocracy of militant fatherprussians, with ties to both civilian heirarchy and military loyalty...

I guess none of these "people" ever heard of the Praetorian Guard.

I guess they also never heard of a military "coup de'ta" either. I'm surprised, cause that is a French word.

I find it interesting to say the least, that those who want to hold Bush more accountable is willing to give him an entire fiefdom in the military where he can acrue personal loyalty by fighting with the men and the boys, and then when he gets back to the Presidency, he can call upon those "favors" when he deems fit.

Jeez, thank god for people educated in matters of the Balance of Powers and Constitutional limits of the military and the civilian leaders.

I wonder when these people will ask themselves this question. "How come nobody in the military who isn't retired, has tried to run for President".