Bush Compares Iraq To Vietnam
It’s official; the Iraq War is the new Vietnam. George Bush has told us so. But not in a bad way. According to the President, the only thing we did wrong in ‘Nam was leave, and if we pull out of Iraq, we will be committing the same mistake. He never mentioned the mistake made by showing up in the first place.
Bush and his people come from a group of old-time Cold Warriors who believe that not only should we have stayed in Vietnam, but that given enough time, we would have won that conflict. Again, he fails to mention that the larger Cold War itself ended in just over a decade following the fall of Saigon.
He stated that should we leave Iraq “the enemy would follow us home,” and acclaimed the US military as the “greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.”
As if we did not already all know it, Bush then declared that we would never leave Iraq so long as he is President. Because he is right. Because everyone else is wrong.
