H/T Hot AirYes, he could be talking about the modern day. …

I love it. Robert Mitchum was WAY ahead of his time.

Romeo13 on May 30, 2007 at 3:59 PM

You know…. the fight in Iraq in which we’ve lost less military people a year than we used to loose to military ACCIDENTS back in the 70s…

Naval aviation ALONE lost more people per year in the 70’s than we’ve lost to combat actions per year since 2003. It was after 1977 that the concepts now embedded in ORM began to take shape, as upper brass was forced to face how poorly safety was being managed.

Did we win the cold war? Did we invade the USSR?

The USSR didn’t knock down our tallest skyscrapers either. They didn’t try, because we had a President who was willing to “push the button”, as Bob Mitchum put it. Reagan stepped up to the line and refused to blink, which forced Russia to spend its anti-capitalist capital on an ever-increasing war machine while slow-bleeding its people of their very existence.

Conservatives look to a statement by actor Robert Mitchum advising that we couldn’t pull out of Vietnam and should nuke the place as some kind of sage advice relating to Iraq. Or something….

gmcjetpilot on May 30, 2007 at 3:36 PM

sigh… shame you know nothing of history except popular myth.

There were riots at the begining of WWII because people didn’t think we should go to war against Germany…

WE WON Viet Nam… and the Dem Congress then abandoned them. It was 2 years after we left that the North invaded again, once they figured out we really had cut the funding to South Viet Nam.

Millions were killed in Cambodia, hundreds of thousands in Viet Nam.

and… this.. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/39459.html

should give you a clue about your wonderful Capitalist Viet Nam.

And please, go read Gen. Giaps memoirs… you know, the ones that BIN LADIN based his whole plan to defeat America on? It talks about how we do not have the will to continue a fight…

You know…. the fight in Iraq in which we’ve lost less military people a year than we used to loose to military ACCIDENTS back in the 70s…

sigh… revisionist talking point history is so disheartening to those of us who actualy do a bit of study and research…. let alone those of us who lived through and remember it.

I think that this “example” is funny since we left Vietnam, 30 years later it’s a capitalist society. Yea yea yea pol-pot killed a bunch of people post US pull out. You would think we would have learned the side affect of invading countries. There is no pol-pot only sunni, shiite and al-qaeda. There is control we can exert but it will take intelligence and diplomacy and the current group in charge have neither ability.

Vietnam was a disaster and accomplished nothing, just like Korea, started on the 30th parallel and ended there. Go watch some episodes of M.A.S.H. War sucks, and Bush decided to go to war than made the evidence to fit. A tragedy of immense and historical proportions. When will we learn. The road to hell is paved with good intent.

YES war is needed some times, like WWII. However we need robust debate and open dialogue with the nation, the people engaged, before going to war and THAN only 100%, not this won’t last 6 months, oil revenues will pay for it, greeted like liberators, mission accomplished, insurgence in the last throes and we need 400,000 troops so send 150,000.

We where still in post 9/11 shock and Bush babies shoved this cluster F down out throats. My bad, our bad.

May we never forget Bush a Republican President and a Republican Congress and Senate Gave us this gift that will cost us trillions over the next 80 years, even if we stopped the bleed today. Remember the Republicans did it, 100% and own it. Congrats. Dems have a BJ and GOP has Iraq. The BJ is looking pretty good right now.

Wow…can you imagine a Hollywood leading man saying that today?

flipflop on May 30, 2007 at 9:10 AM

Hey flip, how about this….

Now a star, Mitchum was quickly branded a rebel for his refusal to take himself or his profession seriously. “This whole place,” he said of Hollywood, “has no relation to real people. Oh, there are real people here, but they’re in the oil refineries and the factories, not in movieland. Not here. This is Atlantis.”

Ok, as soon as all muslims leave all non-muslim countries, we’ll pull out. Deal?

It may take us a lot more suffering to get down to our survival instincts again.

Nail, meet hammer.

Probably nobody remembers the particular show, but one of Marvin’s appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was memorable. Carson asked Marvin who was the bravest man he ever knew. Marvin described a Marine sergeant’s incredible actions on Iwo, for which the Sergeant received the Navy Cross. That Sergeant was Bob Keeshan, known to most of us as Captain Kangaroo.

I think that is an urban legend.

I wonder if he ever used the word “faggot”?

Probably nobody remembers the particular show, but one of Marvin’s appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was memorable. Carson asked Marvin who was the bravest man he ever knew. Marvin described a Marine sergeant’s incredible actions on Iwo, for which the Sergeant received the Navy Cross. That Sergeant was Bob Keeshan, known to most of us as Captain Kangaroo.

There becomes a point where in order for civilization to survive, it must take off the gloves and force the Barbarians to fear it… for Barbarians ONLY understand fear.

‘Heaven Knows Mr. Alison’ was Robert Mitchum playing Robert Mitchum. A gentleman with bruised knuckles.

What a hunky man!

Heh.