{"id":18738,"date":"2013-03-14T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=18738"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:44:55","slug":"texas-congressman-tells-cpac-vietnam-was-winnable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/texas-congressman-tells-cpac-vietnam-was-winnable\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Congressman Tells CPAC Vietnam was Winnable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CPAC is off to its usual mellow start. <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/rep-louie-gohmert-r-tx-vietnam-was-winnable?ref=fpblg\"><strong>TalkingPointsMemo<\/strong><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p><em>Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at conservative gathering CPAC, declared that &#8220;Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you go to war you better mean it,&#8221; Gohmert added, blaming America&#8217;s failure to go to war with Iran over the capture of its embassy in 1979 for more recent attacks on embassies and consulates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gohmert was part of a panel entitled &#8220;Too Many American Wars? Should We Fight Anywhere And Can We Afford It?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Gohmert was not basing  his conclusion on Vietnam on his own combat record, which I could not discover via Google searches<\/strong>.  Gohmert was born in 1953 but somehow missed the chance to fight in the jungles of &#8216;Nam.  He did spent a few years as an Army lawyer in the late 1970s\/early 1980s. But <strong>writing memos isn\u2019t quite the same as engaging in an artillery duel with a North Vietnamese regiment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t enough Texans come back in coffins from that damn war?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Glen Campbell&#8217;s wonderful low-key anti-Vietnam war ballad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28OJJi6W1iE\">Galveston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/28OJJi6W1iE\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vietnam-war-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4789\" alt=\"vietnam war image\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vietnam-war-image.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPAC is off to its usual mellow start. TalkingPointsMemo reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at conservative gathering CPAC, declared that &#8220;Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!&#8221; &#8220;If you go to war you better mean it,&#8221; Gohmert added, blaming America&#8217;s failure to go to war with Iran over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18746,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions\/18746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}