Well, he went and said it. The President says the lessons of Vietnam prove we need to stick around longer in Iraq. I'm not so sure that was a smart thing to say. It really grated on some bloggers. Like this one...
Chickenhawk Bush Has the Gall to Lecture the American People on Vietnam
Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review Rather than serving in Vietnam, George W. Bush spent the wars in a cushy assignment to the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas Air National Guard. No one has ever stepped forward to verify that he completed his service with honor, but there are witnesses [...]
Another, here...
In the middle of Iraq's bloodiest summer yet, on a day that brings the news of the deaths of 14 U.S. soldiers and at least 20 Iraqis are dead in yet another attack on a police stattion, Bush goes Nixon on us. It's a strange tactic for selling the continued occupation of Iraq--evoking the second worst geopolitical and strategic blunder of modern times [...]
One more, as the list continues to grow...
Where Are The VC, Mr. President?
...Maybe you should have spent more time in history class and less time under the barstools in Alabama. As for Vietnam, if your claim is that they will follow us home if we leave Iraq too early, and are equating that to Vietnam, when exactly did the Viet Cong land in San Francisco? I think we all missed that, and you apparently [...]
Ah, yes. As expected, today's speech hit bloggers like a red flag gets to a bull...
Iraqi insurgents = Khmer Rouge.
To most people, the logical leaps needed to make that equation would be impossible, but nothing is too difficult for our Dear Leader. In a speech given to members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars earlier today in Kansas City, Dubya unloaded some of the most preposterous misunderstandings (and outright lies) about the world's history since the Second World War that this magpie has had the misfortune to hear. For example [...]
Historians were not impressed. At least not this one:
Historian: Bush’s ‘distortion’ of Vietnam ‘boggles my mind.’
In his speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars today, President Bush declared that the lesson of Vietnam is that we must not withdraw from Iraq. UCLA historian Robert Dallek, who has written about the comparisons of Iraq to Vietnam, says Bush is “twisting history” with his new analogy: “It just boggles my mind, the distortions I [...]
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