Louie, Louie, Me Gotta Go
He’s at it again. This time at CPAC.
While speaking on a panel entitled “Too Many American Wars? Should We Right Anywhere and Can We Afford It?” at CPAC, Rep. Louie Gohmert kicked off his remarks by railing against the handling of the Vietnam War, asserting that “Vietnam was winnable but people in Washington decided we would not win it!”
Gohmert went on a declare that if the US had made just one more week’s worth of bombing runs over Vietnam, the Viet Cong would have surrendered unconditionally.
If you’ve got the guts, you can click that link above and go see a You Tube of it.
It should be noted that while Louie did serve in the Army from 1978–1982, three years after Viet Nam. He was in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, which means the most dangerous place he saw was a courtroom.
Yeah, just a week. That was all it would have taken.
Thanks to Warner and Tim for the heads up.
Amazing how the biggest hawks are the ones who never saw combat.
1I have never seen clearer proof that the Viet Nam war was not winnable. (Anything Louie says is proof of the opposite.)
2Yep, Looney Louie and Miss Lindsey, both Warriors of the JAG corps~
3In Louie’s case hindsight is not 20/20. And, I don’t understand the title of that panel; what is this supposed to mean: “…Should We Right Anywhere and Can We Afford It?”
4Fight maybe?
5Louie probably watched a lot of “Get Smart” on TV, while the older kids in the neighborhood were fighting the Vietnam War over in Da Nang. To this day, he still gets Maxwell Smart’s catch phrase “missed it by that much,” confused with Vietnam.
6thanks for the heads up…..I posted it on my FB wall.
7“Vietnam was winnable but people in Washington decided we would not win it!”
Umm … isn’t that line straight out of the first Rambo movie?
8Dang, I’m good. Yes it’s from First Blood, or a paraphrase:
“And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn’t let us win!”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/quotes
9And what is the republican excuse for Iraq ?
10WMDs Diane, remember? They didn’t exist, but that was their excuse!
11Louie needs to feed his speech writer another banana and hose out his cage.
12As a Vietnam veteran, I cannot adequately express my disgust with mental lowlifes like Gohmert. After returning from Vietnam, I began to read about that part of the world. We were merely a thirty year blip in a thousand years of history. That mental midgets like this uninformed moron from East Texas can serve as influential voices in our government simply expresses how far our country has fallen.
13@Aggieland liz – that makes sense I guess, although I think it’s funny that they’re asking questions like this now but not a peep out of them during the Bush years about too many wars or their associated expenses.
14Folks should know that East Texas has a progressive population, and I have met him. Next time we meet topic one will be: Even in East Texas, how can people live with the embarrassment that bozo brings.
15In the 1972 Presidential election Nixon ran on a secret plan to end the war. Now we know that secret plan was Louie Gohmert.
16Tell Louie to say it.
Louie will say anything.
I’m amazed there is (1) progresssive in East Texas.
I know it’s not the roses.
But, could not even begin to guess why people vote for this guy.
17There is a progressive in Gober, but the guys in the domino hall don’t know he is one.
18Looks to me like Louie is running for president.
19Now, Juanita, I just read this here article below and came right over to see if you’d mentioned it. You didn’t, so I’ll do it for you.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/14/louie_gohmert_treated_like_rock_star_at_cpac_of_course/
20OMG….
I SOOOO enjoyed yesterday… I had a conversation with one of those truly sweet, gentle kind Church Ladies in Abilene about drug cartels and assault weapons. Hospital setting… she a hospital employee/nurse=type,,, I blasted her about the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, guns and legalization of marijuana. Bless her sweet heart…. she was shocked. I have definitive evidence about how I could buy ADVAIR for less than my co-pay in the US, without a prescription, over the counter, along with $1.50 albuterol…$2.50 Erythromycin, Zpacks for $18… and here was her flashpoint… $10 Retinol A without a prescription. When I told her there were no gun shops in Mx, and you couldn’t go into Walmart to buy a shotgun and shells… that all the drug cartel folks were purchasing their assault weapons in Tx, NM, and AZ…. and would continue to do so until we banned them, and legalized, taxed, regulated marijuana… her poor little face froze. Screwie Louie and all his little steeple people need a rude awakening…. Hello… Business 101… Supply and Demand. It almost registered in her hollow eyes. LOL LOL LOL
21I was just barely too young for my age group to be drafted, but friends not much older went and served. A SEAL friend, just 4 years older than I, refuses to go to high school reunions as the Army held a recruiting effort, “Join together, serve in the same unit.” The unit from his high school did not come home from Vietnam. He did two tours and resigned his commission to keep from doing a third.
I’ve also had the Tet Offensive described to me by two different people who were there. One was Air Force and had arrived in Saigon the day before. The other was scouting in the hills above under radio silence, unable to warn the military installation, and had to watch helplessly during the attack. Both are just one tiny piece of what these men experienced there.
Bombing runs are only good over concentrated targets. Vietnam was pure guerrilla warfare with the jungle working for the natives and against Americans used to a more tame environment.
Good Lord, Louie is actually 6 years older than I am. How can he not know more about this? He even went to Texas A&M and was in the Corps (then again, so was Rick Perry), which means he took classes in military strategy. It doesn’t say in what he received his B.A. from A&M. However, since he was class president at both A&M and at Baylor (from which he got his J.D.), he’s obviously been doing the political thing all his life.
22Southern Beale: That quote must be in the movie, which came out in 1982, but the book “First Blood” was published in 1972 – 3 years before the war ended. Prof. David Morrell was at U. of Iowa when he wrote it based on stories of troops who returned to college after combat in Vietnam. However, movie rights were resold 3 times & screenwriting went through 18 versions – before it was finally made into a movie thanks to Stallone’s interest in playing Rambo.
23It is an insult to all veterans, my husband is a disabled vietnam veteran, this idiot Louie know nothing!’
24My blood boil when Louie talks about Hitler, and compares Obama to Hitler, I am very old!!!!! I was a child in WW2 England and remember being bombed every night, we, over there learned all about Hitler, to Louie it is just an insulting word to call the president, he should not throw these things around so lightly.
I now live in Louie’s district and most of the folks I’ve met up here seem nice. I just can’t wrap my head around how they can keep sending is idiot back to D.C.
25Gee, no fragging in the courtroom!
26Ahh Gohmert …I mean…. jus’ look at his pic.
It’s L. Gohmert Pyle, ‘cept Gomer was smarter.
27Those armchair generals always know best. What a moron.
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