Friday, April 21, 2006

Tory MP calls for troop withdrawal from Iraq

Which Stopper is this? Michael Ancram. Lead signatory of the Henry 'Stopper' Jackson Society - er Scoop - er this is confusing. I said he was flaky...though wasn't it the case that even Scoop himself decided to abandon Vietnam when he thought it might help him win the election? Maybe this is their next big thing?

In his justification for the decision [to vote against the 1974 military appropiation bill], he stressed that no further aid could save a corrupt South Vietnamese regime that “lacked the determination, leadership and direction to fight”….[in April 1975] he accused the executive branch of misleading “a foreign government and the United States Congress about US commitments to South Vietnam in 1972-73