Dubya Has 'Super-dupper Secret' Plan To Win Iraq War

[Nbadan]

HELENA, Mont. - Sen. Conrad Burns says he believes President Bush has a plan to win the war in Iraq but is keeping it quiet, a statement Democrats pounced on Wednesday as reminiscent of comments made during another divisive war.

Burns, at a debate Tuesday night with Democratic challenger Jon Tester, said he believes Bush has a plan to win — but added: "we're not going to tell you what our plan is."

Burns, who has said repeatedly the country must stay in Iraq as long as it takes to win the war, also seemed to suggest a new path may be needed in Iraq. He pointed to fellow Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, who has recently called for a new strategy in Iraq.

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Democrats likened Burns' comments to statements by President Nixon that led to news reports that he had a "secret plan" to end or win the war in Vietnam. Like Nixon, Burns never used the word "secret" but made it clear it wasn't in the president's or the country's interest to discuss any plans he has for winning the war.

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_el_se/burns_war_plan_2)

In 1968 Richard Nixon said he had a plan to end the Vietnam War, but it was a 'secret'. He got elected and the war continued for seven more years costing tens of thousands of American lives, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of Southeast Asians killed and disabled for life.

In the end, Nixon threw in the towel, resigned the presidency in disgrace in August 1974, Gerald Ford took office as president declared victory for the U.S. policy and Nixon Doctrine called "Vietnamization", so the democratic-controlled congress voted to withhold all further support of the war in December 1974, turned the running of the war over to the South Vietnamese military and withdrew all U.S. support. South Vietnam fell to the communist North in less than than four months after that officially ending on April 30, 1975.

[BIG IRISH]

Nixon had a plan! It was called DUCK HOOK

But on October 6, 1969, Nixon decided against Duck Hook.

This was reportedly because:

There were reservations about Duck Hook's potential effectiveness;

public support for the war continued to decline;
there were signs of political slippage; and

Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William P. Rogers opposed military escalation


THE PLAN:

Duck Hook (code-named "Pruning Knife" by the military) was the White House code-name of an operation President Richard Nixon had threatened to unleash against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, if North Vietnam did not yield to Washington's terms at the Paris peace negotiations.

Duck Hook called for the possibly-nuclear bombing of military and economic targets in and around Hanoi, the mining of Haiphong and other ports, air strikes against North Vietnam's northeast line of communications as well as passes and bridges at the Chinese border, and air and ground attacks on other targets throughout Vietnam.

Declassified documents have been revealed that show that Duck Hook considered including using nuclear weapons.[

1] An attachment to a memo from Henry Kissinger to Nixon asked, "Should we be prepared to use nuclear weapons?" The memo warned that "Since we cannot confidently predict the exact point at which Hanoi could be likely to respond positively, we must be prepared to play out whatever string necessary." Kissinger's memo also stated that "To achieve its full effect on Hanoi's thinking, the action must be brutal." [emphasis in original]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hook

Don't forget Kissinger is advising GWB :oops

[PixelPusher]

Don't forget Kissinger is advising GWB :oops

beat me to it.