BATTLE OF THE SIXES
Orrin’s Freudian Slip Is Revealing
By Randy Harward, 11-29-05
It’s an easy mistake that even a senator can make. Even one as tight as Utah’s own Senator Orrin Hatch. Even on a network as tight as Fox News. While being interviewed on the network Monday morning, our esteemed senior senator’s subconscious elbowed aside talking points when he said:“The Democratic Party seems to be taken over by the Michael Moore contingent in their attitude toward Vietnam, and they continually call for a withdrawal of troops at a time when we haven't finished the job."
He said Vietnam, but meant Iraq. Again, easy mistake. Hatch’s spin doc says it happened because Hatch was reading a magazine article about the analogies between the two wars. Must’ve been a pretty convincing piece. [End of article]
Orrin Hatch has been Utah's US Senator for three decades and sits prominently on the Senate Intelligence Committee so he ought to know that Vietnam was a dramatic failure for US policy and understand that Iraq has become a similar quagmire.
The problem is that Orrin never actually served time in the US military and will continue to carry water for(Republican party)leadership until the US again fails, the same thing that was done for many years during the Vietnam debacle.
It appears that politicians who have a vested interest in war and with corporations that benefit monetarily would rather not confront basic sense reality. Orrin Hatch receives more than 90 percent of his campaign donations from corporations. Orrin and his ilk love to try to blame the Vietnam failure on those who opposed that war, including veterans who fought there and realized the folly. So Orrin Hatch will again attack the messengers and those who oppose the Iraq war in an attempt to remove the responsibility from himself and shield those who run our country.
If the public really wants to send a message to Orrin Hatch and other mainstream politicians they should vote for the Green Party of Utah's already nominated candidate "Julian" Hatch in the 2006 election. I personally protested against attacking Iraq throughout the build-up to the war because there was no evidence for weapons of mass destruction and occupation of that country would be a mistake. I continue to protest the continued occupation and believe our troops must be removed from Iraq as well as stopping all other miltary intervention by us in that country.
We should have used the international community and UN to effect change in Iraq before our invasion and can only hope that the UN and international intervention can solve the problems our Republicrat government officials have created in the Middle East. Obviously, while Orrin Hatch knows full well the true situation in Iraq he will never face the facts or openly admit the mistakes he and his fellow public officials have made.