In case you missed it this week the Democrats reentered 1975 again. Of course I’m talking about the masterful way that President Bush took the revisioned history of Vietnam that Democrats have thrown up as the “quagmire” of Iraq and set again the record of history straight.

In the days afterward we have seen the MSM and Democrats go on the rampage trying to reassert that Bush’s use of history was wrong, and that he was wrong to use it as an example of the repercussions of a early pullout out of Iraq. Of course the funny thing about history is that it is what it is, and facts are what they are. I find it especially comical that most of the lefty bloggers memory of Vietnam is based on Google searches and what they read off of DNC shadow sites such as Think Progress and Media Matters.

Of course for those of us who lived with it and especially in the aftermath, we know what the truth is. We know the the war was essentially at the winning point in 1973 only to have it snatch away when a democrat congress pulled the funding in 1975. Byron York recaptures the moment, which is again a accurate comparison of today. He quotes from a present day Democrat, Senator James Web, a decorated Vietnam veteran.

“This Congress was elected in November 1974, only months after Nixon’s resignation, and it was dominated by a fresh group of antiwar Democrats. One of the first actions of the new Congress was to vote down a supplemental appropriation for the beleaguered South Vietnamese that would have provided $800 million in military aid, including much-needed ammunition, spare parts and medical supplies.

This vote was a horrendous blow, in both emotional and practical terms, to the country that had trusted American judgment for more than a decade of intense conflict. It was also a clear indication that Washington was abandoning the South Vietnamese even as the North Vietnamese continued to enjoy the support of the Soviet Union, China and other Eastern bloc nations. The vote’s impact was hardly lost on North Vietnamese military planners, who began the final offensive only five weeks later, as the South Vietnamese were attempting to adjust their military defenses.

Finally, the aftermath of Saigon’s fall is rarely dealt with at all. A gruesome holocaust took place in Cambodia, the likes of which had not been seen since World War II. Two million Vietnamese fled their country ‚Äî usually by boat ‚Äî with untold thousands losing their lives in the process. This was the first such diaspora in Vietnam’s long and frequently tragic history. Inside Vietnam a million of the South’s best young leaders were sent to re-education camps; more than 50,000 perished while imprisoned, and others remained captives for as long as 18 years. An apartheid system was put into place that punished those who had been loyal to the United States, as well as their families, in matters of education, employment and housing. The Soviet Union made Vietnam a client state until its own demise, pumping billions of dollars into the country and keeping extensive naval and air bases at Cam Ranh Bay.”

The Democratic party bears full responsibility for everything that happened in the wake of the pullout from Vietnam - everything. Nothing that they try to say or try to manufacture in rebuttal changes the fact that they pulled the plug that would have changed the aftermath - totally - in the favor of the Vietnamese.

They are trying to repeat history, we cannot allow that to happen.