Bush Cites Vietnam Comparison

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Another vet thinks Bambi is full of sh*t!

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Former Democratic U.S. Senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, said President George W. Bush made a faulty analogy when he cited that war to bolster his case for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq.

``One of the lessons to be learned from Vietnam is that the commitment of American military strength alone cannot solve another country's political weakness,'' Cleland said today in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address. ``This should be a somber warning to us all to responsibly end the war in Iraq and the additional loss of precious American lives.''

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Bambi has crapped in his chili, another good article about his dumbass statement.

WHEN President George W Bush invoked the memory of Vietnam to justify staying in Iraq, he was drawing on a new wave of revisionist history which maintains that America did not lose the war, but the will to win.

“Three decades later there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam war and how we left,” Bush said in a speech to army veterans last week. White House insiders admitted it was a risky topic which had previously been left to the antiwar movement. Americans generally prefer to forget Indochina and remember who won the cold war.

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It's a major flip-flop for Bush. He was against making the comparision to VN since the beginning of the war. Now he is using it to make a case to stay in Iraq. Budh has foot-in-mouth disease.

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His lack of historical knowledge amazes even me. For one, The Communist in Vietnam are the ones that put a stop to Pol Pot and is killing fields; they went in to Cambodia and stop them. It took about 3 yrs after Us pull out for the Commies to take Saigon. IMO, it could have been done sooner, but they were waiting for the mass of americans to leave before they pushed south. I think it was part of the peace deal hammere3d out in Paris.

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Well, I guess his speechwriters aren't any smarter than he is. He doesn't know enough about VN to make this up himself. Laughing

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Here is a story for you. Yes, and we are talking about people that probably could not find Vietnam on a map.. This poll is about as worthless as tits on a boar.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that Americans are fairly evenly divided on the question of whether Iraq is like Vietnam. Forty-seven percent (47%) believe that, from the perspective of the United States, Iraq is like Vietnam. Forty-four percent (44%) disagree and say it is not.

Republicans, by a 61% to 29% comparison, say Iraq is not like Vietnam. Democrats, by a 59% to 33% margin, say they are similar.

Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters say that our biggest mistake in Vietnam was getting involved in the first place. Forty-two percent (42%) say the mistake was using the wrong strategy to accomplish the nation's goals.

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Republicans, by a 61% to 29% comparison, say Iraq is not like Vietnam.

They are in denial about every other screw up this president has made so this take on the issue seems to be more of the same. Rolling Eyes

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I like the way politicians pick and choose their facts, and most us poster do too. We try nto find a story that most feel shares their beliefs. The Pres boyz thought it woulkd play good at the Vet orgs that he gave these speeches at, is the only reason it was ever brought up.