Maybe Karl Rove was Bush's brain. He leaves the building and all of a sudden the White House is using terrible talking points. The President gave a speech today comparing Iraq to Vietnam (an analogy he had directly rejected earlier , saying the comparison he made today would send "the wrong message to our troops" and "the wrong message to the enemy.")
Iraq is like Vietnam? That's the worst marketing strategy I've ever heard. Why don't they try this one next -- If You Liked Vietnam, You'll Love Iraq.
Bush is no student of history, so I don't know if he knows this, but we lost Vietnam. And more importantly, there was no hope of winning. If Bush is trying to say we should have stayed in Vietnam, that dog will not hunt. I guarantee it. The jury is in on Vietnam and the two inescapable conclusions are 1) we should have never gone in (like Iraq) 2) we had to leave because we had no chance of winning (like Iraq).
The one thing the Bush administration used to be good at is politics. Now, if they have also lost this ability, they're cooked. You have to be awfully desperate to think bringing up Vietnam as a comparison to Iraq would help your case. Who would have thought that four years into the Iraq War Bush would be arguing that Iraq is like Vietnam. They're in awfully bad spot -- just like Vietnam.
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16. well comparing those two wars is like comparing a fight in real life and a video game where you get to press start and die again, again, and again, i love this comparison it makes me wonder if Mr president thinks vietnam happen during WWII, and i bet he thinks hitler was n vietnam when he was defeated
rabbitt at 1:50PM on Aug 25th 2007
17. The GOP manic crew are so quick to judge and disribute misinformation.
Sorry, Gere, woman who served during Viet Nam, disabled and honorably discharged. I must say , you were correct on one point, By not remembering we are doomed to repeat history. IRAQ, yeah? 3,800 murded military men and women. For what? Do not even pull that al-Qu'ida crap with me, either. In Afghanistan during the war between Afghani's and Russia, just who put the weapons in the hands of Usama bin Laden? We did. al-Qu'ida is thanks our GREAT friend and ally, Saudi Arabia. bin Laden is now crossed off my DEAD POOL, along with Fidel Castro. They are both deader than door nails.
So Mr. Bush had an exit strategy from Viet Nam, too bad he's 30 years too late. How about we get one regarding Iraq? Like friggin' leave, NOW!!!
Rick, you are mad right about Viet Nam and Pol Pot.
Pshyco nut case Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in CAMBODIA, not Laos.
If, Gere you are worried re: repatition of history, we are just so lucky to have Iraq, the Darfur Genocide, the Rwandan Genocide and those kooky cats in Sierra Leone and least we forget Hurricane Katrina. Stop talking and start helping, Gere.
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Actions speak louder than words. I was active in my protests against the invasion of Viet Nam and Iraq, am active in donations and my time regarding above atrocities.
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Pardon me for any typos, have to pick up my sick dog.
rhodalee at 10:56AM on Aug 25th 2007
18. I am amazed at all the arm chair soilders we have who can make these great analogies about the war. Its easy to view the game where both sides are exposed and make your plays, than be in the game when you are exposed. Isn't it to bad we don't have foresight. I'm sure if you could interview the 300,000 plus that Saddam brutaly murdered they would be happy that madman was stopped, it would be right in thier eyes. There are more people killed daily from drunk drivers than the total amount of our troops in the 5 years total. I don't hear the outrage against that, are the only important lives those lost tragides.
lyndee at 4:23PM on Aug 27th 2007