Rumsfeld Grilling Was All About Clinton

by Robert Novak - August 10th, 2006 - Chicago Sun-Times

Sen. Hillary Clinton's confrontation with Donald Rumsfeld at the Senate Armed Services Committee last week lasted only 12 minutes but offered a glimpse of the 2008 Democratic presidential front-runner's style. A tense Clinton seemed mechanical, reading a five-minute indictment of the secretary of defense. His 6 [and] 1/2-minute impromptu response was far more animated.

The significance of this grilling was that Hillary is starting to be influenced by the growing public opinion (foisted by the MSM) the Iraq war is lost. Just as we threw away victory on the battlefield in Vietnam, we are winning in Iraq but are about to throw away victory.

My concern with this possibility increased dramatically when I was at a Hyde County Chamber of Commerce meeting last week. Republican Congressman Walter Jones made it clear he thinks the Iraq war is wrong, and like Hillary, he wants to fire Donald Rumsfeld. If cut and run becomes the position of even a few more Republicans like Jones, we could easily see a repeat of the blood bath after our pullout from Vietnam.

More than one million Vietnamese died in the communist purge after our pullout from that country. Millions more were sent to re-education camps of torture and intimidation. The consequnces of our actions at that time were ignored by the MSM and there are still people who ignorantly claim that this did not happen. It did.

I pray it is not about to happen again.