Vietnam = Iraq

Now, the President is drawing the comparisons. It's eerie.

Invoking Vietnam...Not Too Bright

If I were Bush's media advisor, or his framing expert, or whatever, I would advise Bush not to invoke the example of Vietnam while trying to buck up America's resolve to stay in Iraq. There is a tiny slice of Americans, mostly Republicans, who think we would have won the war in Vietnam is we had just kept at it. These people can be pretty noisy, but they constitute a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate. The aftermath of our pullout from Vietnam was indeed ugly. The war spilled over [...]

Post-War Bush Forgets Pre-War Bush’s ‘Lessons Of Vietnam’

Prior the Iraq war, George W. Bush claimed that he had learned some powerful lessons from the Vietnam war. Among those lessons were the fact that U.S. must be “slow to engage troops.” “We can never again ask the military to fight a political war,” Bush said, adding that “the cause must be just”: A generation [...]

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