The irony is bitter and painful, just like the memories still haunting the Vietnam veterans who George Bush used to get reelected.
Warned that Iraq could become another Vietnam as they took us to war, Cheney/Bush denied it, after once admitting it. (See it here). Now that we may finally be hauling our boots out of this quagmire, Cheney/Bush says we should stay, or else this could become another Vietnam.
The president who ducked Vietnam, who brought us a replay of Vietnam, who said this was not Vietnam, now says we have to stay to keep Iraq from becoming Vietnam. After once preening under a banner that proclaimed "Mission Accomplished," after challenging religious Muslims to "Bring it ON!"
Outrageous. Amoral. Callous. The man should not be allowed to even say the word Vietnam to the people of this country. And those of you who still support this fool, you have another chance.
Oh people, the bills that have yet to be paid for this tragic mistake are not yet received. The loss of national treasure, national prestige, the coming home of the maimed and the broken and their care, the lost investments, the lost productivity: the debts will last at least another generation.
You want a war? This is a war. You want a hero? That writer, that soldier Sean, he is a hero.
Not the braying smarmy little jackass from Texas, the bantam cock Bush who failed at everything he undertook in his adult life, not this small man so indifferent that he has brought failure home by comparing his war of vengeance in Iraq to Vietnam, he has sullied the memory of those that served there then, he abuses the trust of those who serve in Iraq now.
God forgive him.
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This is rich. Who writes your material?
Well, that was an incisive response. The fact is that, despite the last desperate gaspings of the Sean Hannitys, the Charles Krauthammers, the Fred Barnes and the rest of the state-worshiping armchair warriors, the American people are sick of this war.
The surge is having an effect; no question. It should have been done two years ago, or better yet at the time of the invasion.
Now, it's irrelevant because the Iraqis can't pull their shit together. You want your Vietnam analogy, there it is. 10 years and billions of dollars to prop up ARVN and they folded up like oragami in the face of the North Vietnamese.
Yeah, even amnesiacs like the American public get it... we've been down this road before.
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