President compares Iraq to Vietnam

Thursday August 23, 2007 | | Permalink | Digg It

The President is now drawing comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam suggesting that we lost in Vietnam because we didn’t stay long enough:

One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of Americas withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like “boat people,” “re-education camps,” and “killing fields.”

Not only is that bullshit, it’s also a slap in the face to the Vietnam Vets who fought and died. Bush only seems to want to draw comparisons to Vietnam when it suits his political agenda. Flashback to 2004 :

Q: Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that support for your policy is declining and that fewer than half Americans now support it. What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam comparison?

Bush: I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops, and sends the wrong message to the enemy. Look, this is hard work. It’s hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny. And, yet, we must stay the course, because the end result is in our nation’s interest.

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