Senator Reid has declared the Iraq War lost. Senator Shumer promised last week that is only a matter of time before Democrats get their way on troop withdrawal. Are we going to have April 1975 all over again?

Senators Reid and Shumer, you and I are old enough to remember how the Vietnam War ended. Remember the shameful sight of those outreached hands of our friends and allies as the last helicopters left the American embassy? The thousands killed, the reeducation camps, the plight of the boat people? And then there was the genocide in Cambodia. They called it the killing fields, remember that? I do not doubt that we would see similar suffering as a result of leaving a destabilized Iraq. Emboldened terrorists would destabilize governments in neighboring countries. I mean, after leaving Iraq would we really go back to save Kuwait or Jordan?

So Senators, fund the troops. If it all goes badly it's George W Bush’s war. If you persist in attempting to make this Vietnam all over again it wii be your defeat.

Wyncote, PA 19095