General Westmoreland Dies.

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However you feel about Westy, this statement says volumes.


The silver-haired, jut-jawed officer, who rose through the ranks quickly in Europe during World War II and later became superintendent of West Point, contended the United States did not lose the conflict in Southeast Asia.

"It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam," he said. "By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling."

RIP, General.

Airborne, All the Way!

Http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/07/19/181605.html

[Sailor]

Rest in Peace General.



I'm not going to put anything about Gen Westmoreland up over at THC. It would only drive the usual suspects into a frenzy and ruin any tribute.

Thanks for putting this up here Rex.

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General Westmoreland, R.I.P.
How Westy won.
By John Miller


"CBS almost certainly misled viewers," concluded veteran reporter Stephen Klaidman in the New York Times.


He wasn't talking about Dan Rather's performance in the presidential election, when the CBS News anchor used phony documents to question the National Guard credentials of President George W. Bush.

Instead, Klaidman wrote these words more than 20 years ago, when General William C. Westmoreland settled a lawsuit he had filed against CBS for libel. The controversy over what the television network had claimed about the retired officer, who died yesterday at the age of 91, unmasked the biases of the mainstream media, hardened the public's views about liberal journalists who insist that they are objective, and helped lay the groundwork for the swift rejection of Rather's bogus assertions in 2004.

Born in South Carolina in 1914, Westmoreland attended the Citadel for a year but graduated from West Point. During the Second World War, he fought bravely in Africa and Europe. During the Korean War, he commanded paratroops. He became the youngest man in the history of the Army to attain the rank of major general (at the age of 42). So when the United States began to broaden its military commitments in Vietnam in the 1960s, he was an obvious choice to lead the American effort.

That war did not go well, and Westmoreland received his share of the blame. He always maintained that the United States could have prevailed in Vietnam, if President Lyndon Johnson had given the military more support. He also resented the antiwar movement, and sent liberal Washington into predictable conniptions when he called protesters "unpatriotic."

Westmoreland left Vietnam for a Pentagon post in 1968 and retired from the military in 1972. He ran for governor of South Carolina two years later, but he lost the GOP nomination. His career of public service appeared to be at an end.

READ THE REST:

www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200507190726.asp

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Thanks guys.

CBS will get theirs someday. They have been anti-Conservative and military since Walter took the helm. Dad use to sit and cuss the TV and Walter. But then again he voted for Wallace and his old boss LaMay in 1964.

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robertfollette said:

Rest in Peace General.



I'm not going to put anything about Gen Westmoreland up over at THC. It would only drive the usual suspects into a frenzy and ruin any tribute.

Thanks for putting this up here Rex.

I didn't post it on current events for the same reason. Those assholes couldn't have shined this guy's jump boots.

I did post it on the VN board, though. Most of the guys there will be respectful regardless of whatever personal issues they may have had with him. The reality is that he, like us, had one hand tied behind his back.

He just tried to do his duty and never bitched about it.

He was a for real soldier.