Bush: Don’t let Iraq be a Vietnam?
A big problem with Bush comparing Iraq to Vietnam is Nixon, Kissinger admitted Vietnam was unwinnable.
DNW- Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger admitted to each other privately that it was “impossible” to win the Vietnam War, yet called Democrats the “party of surrender” for wanting to pull out, according to a new book.
“Using language that has a painfully contemporary echo,” Nixon and Kissinger talked tough on Vietnam in public while secretly preparing to withdraw, according to historian Robert Dallek.
“In Saigon the tendency is to fight the war to victory,” Nixon told Kissinger as early as 1969, Dallek writes, “but you and I know it won’t happen – it is impossible.”Nevertheless, the two agreed they should label the Democrats “the party of surrender” even as they maneuvered for a withdrawal, Dallek writes in “Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power.”
AJC-President Bush offered a rousing defense of his Iraq policy Wednesday, declaring he envisions an American victory there and asserting that a hasty withdrawal by the United States would unleash a bloodbath reminiscent of the Vietnam War era.
Ah, the GOP!
They give lawyers and politicians a bad name.
Bush has a bachelors in History. Something tells me he didn’t hit the books too often.
So, the deserter * is now taking lessons from the ones who rode the Swift Boats, eh?
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AWOL is less than 30 days; after that, its desertion.