[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Déjà vu all over again

[Morton K. Brussel]

FYI --mkb

Begin forwarded message:

> From: CLW Hotline <jdi at clw.org>
> Date: March 21, 2006 2:15:46 PM CST
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Déjà vu all over again
> Reply-To: CLW Hotline <jdi at clw.org>
>
> March 21, 2006: Council for a Livable World
>
> As Yogi Berra said, “it’s like déjà vu, all over again”
>
>
> President George W. Bush – March 21, 2006: “We're making progress  
> because we've got a strategy for victory.”
> President’s press conference, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/ 
> politics/21text-bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
> President Lyndon Johnson - November 17, 1967: "We are inflicting  
> greater losses than we're taking... We are making progress."
> http://www.vietnamwar.com/timeline65-68.htm
>
>
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld – March 19, 2006:  “The  
> terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I  
> believe that history will show that to be the case.”
> Washington Post, March 19, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- 
> dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031701797.html?sub=AR
>
> Richard Nixon, New York Times, Mar. 28, 1985: “No event in American  
> history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was  
> misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
> http://www.vietnamwar.com/
>
>
> President George W. Bush – March 19, 2006: "We are implementing a  
> strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq.”
> President’s Remarks on the South Lawn, http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 
> news/releases/2006/03/20060319.html
>
> President Richard Nixon - January 4, 1971: "The end is in sight."
> http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html
>
>
> Vice President Dick Cheney – March 19, 2006 -“And I think we are  
> going to succeed in Iraq. I think the evidence is overwhelming.”
> Face The Nation , http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/26/ftn/ 
> main1346210.shtml
>
> Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Oct. 1972: “We believe that  
> peace is at hand.”
> http://www.vietnamwar.com/timeline69-75.htm
>
>
> Gen. George Casey – March 19, 2006: “So, yes we’re making good  
> political progress and yes, we continue to make good progress with  
> the Iraqi security forces.”
> Meet the Press, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11823851/
>
> Defense Secretary Robert McNamara – May 1962 - "We are winning the  
> war.”
> http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html
>
>
> Bob Schieffer: “Mr. Vice President, all along the government has  
> been very optimistic. You remain optimistic. But I remember when  
> you were saying we'd be greeted as liberators, you played down the  
> insurgency 10 months ago. You said it was in its last throes. Do  
> you believe that these optimistic statements may be one of the  
> reasons that people seem to be more skeptical in this country about  
> whether we ought to be in Iraq?”
> Dick Cheney: “No. I think it has less to do with the statements  
> we've made, which I think were basically accurate and reflect  
> reality, than it does with the fact that there's a constant sort of  
> perception, if you will, that's created because what's newsworthy  
> is the car bomb in Baghdad. It's not all the work that went on that  
> day in 15 other provinces in terms of making progress towards  
> rebuilding Iraq.”
> Face the Nation, March 19, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 
> 2006/02/26/ftn/main1346210.shtml
>
> Walt W. Rostow, National Security Adviser, Dec. 1967:  “I see light  
> at the end of the tunnel.”
> http://www.vietnam-war.info/quotes/quotes2.php
>
>
>
> Council for a Livable World
> 322 4th Street, NE
> Washington, D.C. 20002
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/private/peace-discuss/attachments/20060321/73def1c8/attachment.html