"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." -- Churchill's remark after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich Pact with Hitler
Now lets look at the words and beliefs of those that are running the country and say that what they represent is a "MANDATE" we gave them.
First Henry Nostralitus Waxman

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said, "What we now have in Iraq is a defeat. We cannot achieve the illusions of the Bush administration that we will be able to create a stable unified liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American ... Instead, we have sectarian fighting, death squads and a disabled Middle East that threatens to be engulfed by the nightmare that we have unleashed."

What the Vietnamese Thought
Most anti-Communist Vietnamese believe that the United States was right when supporting the Republic of Vietnam with aid and soldiers. However, the American and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) governments have lost the war because Washington was lacking in resolution, while South Vietnamese leaders were relying too much on American support and believed that Washington would never accept the dishonor of a total defeat. Fast forward to today, and Chuck Schumer:

Democrats said Saturday they'll drop efforts to pass a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq and instead will offer a flurry of anti-war legislation "just like in the days of Vietnam."...Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats would be "relentless." "There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam," Schumer said. "The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come home."The Democrats and the media are having a great time reliving their glory days, the Vietnam War. They proved then, very successfully, that it wasn't necessary for the military to lose a war -- that Congress could do it for them.
This time, however, it's a different enemy. What is lost in the debate is that al-Qaida has made this the central front in their war with us. I happen to think that it's best that we fight them there than here. After we leave, and just as Lebanon and Somalia were used by Osama bin Laden as evidence of the "paper tiger" that is the United States, this "defeat", as Henry Waxman and the Democrats have already called it, will be an enormous boost to our enemies, emboldening them even further.

Remember America this is the MANDATE YOU VOTED FOR!
Democrats
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