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CPAC is off to its usual mellow start. TalkingPointsMemo<\/strong><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at conservative gathering CPAC, declared that\u00a0“Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“If you go to war you better mean it,” Gohmert added, blaming America’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

Gohmert was part of a panel entitled “Too Many American Wars? Should We Fight Anywhere And Can We Afford It?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Rep. Gohmert was not basing\u00a0 his conclusion on Vietnam on his own combat record, which I could not discover via Google searches.<\/strong>\u00a0 Gohmert was born in 1953 but somehow missed the chance to fight in the jungles of ‘Nam.\u00a0 He did spent a few years as an Army lawyer in the late 1970s\/early 1980s. But writing memos isn\u2019t quite the same as engaging in an artillery duel with a North Vietnamese regiment<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Didn’t enough Texans come back in coffins from that damn war?<\/p>\n

Here’s Glen Campbell’s wonderful low-key anti-Vietnam war ballad, Galveston –<\/p>\n

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