Charlie Rangel on the day he becomes chair of Ways and Means:
“You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?”
In 1973 congress cut off all funds for americans troops, and air in Vietnam, followed by a cut off to the Vietnamese themselves in early 1975, and the picture is April. This is Charlie Rangel's desire for Iraq. I thought far more of him. Charles Rangel is Hassan Abassi's Risk Averse man of america
but the Viet Cong weren't interested in destroying america, and had no enmity outside their war for the american peoples and their way of life.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) will chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee if Democrats win control of the House next year, but his main goal in 2007 does not fall within his panel’s jurisdiction.
“I can’t stop this war,” a frustrated Rangel said in a recent interview, reiterating his vow to retire from Congress if Democrats fall short of a majority in the House.
But when pressed on how he could stop the war even if Democrats control the House during the last years of President Bush’s second term, Rangel paused before saying, “You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?”
Rangel’s views on funding the war are shared by many of his colleagues – especially within the 73-member Out of Iraq Caucus.
Some Democratic legislators want to halt funding for the war immediately, while others say they would allocate money for activities such as reconstruction, setting up international security forces, and the ultimate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
“Personally, I wouldn’t spend another dime [on the war,]” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.).
Woolsey is among the Democrats in Congress who are hoping to control the power of the purse in 2007 to force an end to the war. Woolsey and some of her colleagues note that Congress helped force the end of Vietnam War by refusing to pay for it.
Democrats in the House and Senate are united in their effort to conduct more oversight of the Bush administration’s management of the Iraq war, but are not on the same page on how to fund it.
While the Senate could switch hands, political analysts say the House is more likely to flip.
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American combat troops were involved from 1959, but not in large numbers until 1965. They left the country in 1973.... [THAT'S 1973!] the war ... ended on April 30, 1975, with the capitulation of South Vietnam.
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In December 1974, the Democrat majority in Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which cut off all military funding to the South Vietnamese government and made unenforceable the peace terms negotiated by Nixon.
[REPEAT]In December 1974, the Democrat majority in Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which cut off all military funding to the South Vietnamese government and made unenforceable the peace terms negotiated by Nixon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
RELIAPUNDIT: South Vietnam would be as free and prosperous as South Korea today (instead of almost as tyannized and poor as NORTH Korea)if the doves of the Democrat party hadn't ABANDONED them in 1975 (effectively).
As they will certainly abandon the Iraqis and Afghanis. And Israelis.
MORE HERE - in a must read/RTWT - CFR ARTICLE BY MELVIN LAIRD:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20051101faessay84604/melvin-r-laird/iraq-learning-the-lessons-of-vietnam.html
excerpt:
Summary: "During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South's ability to defend itself. The result was a success -- until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly."
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