would you : BUSH INVOKES VIETNAM WAR TO ARGUE AGAINST PULLOUT FROM IRAQ. YOUR THOUGHTS? [+] serious ballot by mojo created Thu Aug 23, 07 After years of rejecting any comparisons to Vietnam, on Wednesday President Bush invoked the Vietnam War as a way of saying the U.S. must stay the course and not pull out. Reporter Kelly O'Donnell noted that “after years of pushback rejecting the Vietnam-Iraq comparison, today in Kansas City, before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the President made a turn and embraced his own Vietnam analogy. Mr. Bush's comments on Wednesday contrast with what he said last year when asked if he saw an Iraq-Vietnam connection. At a June 14, 2006 press conference: “I don't see the parallels.” "If we were to abandon the Iraqi people, the terrorists would be emboldened, and use their victory to gain new recruits," Bush said in a speech to members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at their convention in Kansas City, Missouri. "The tragedy of Vietnam is too large to be contained in one speech," he said. Bush said that three decades after Washington withdrew from Vietnam, there was a debate about how the country had got into the Vietnam War and how it had left it. "Whatever your position is on that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're-education camps,' and 'killing fields,'" he noted. Bush said that a terrorist safe haven on the other side of the world could bring death and destruction to the streets of U.S. cities, as demonstrated by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He said that unlike in Vietnam, if the United States withdrew its troops from Iraq "before the job is done," the enemy "will follow us home." "And that is why, for the security of the United States of America, we must defeat them overseas so we do not face them in the United States of America," he said. So, now Bush is saying the Iraqis (no, wait, I thought the terrorists were Al Qaeda -- never mind) will remembe our track record in Vietnam if we pull out of Iraq, and follow us home??? Huh? Down the rabbit-hole . . . Bush is shameless. Pretzel logic rules, especially when you know you can't be impeached (thank you, Nancy Pelosi). Invoking Vietnam is obscene in this context. Comment Register to submit choices Ballot #117275 : SEE RESULTS Comment: Register to submit comments You may still vote without registration show your vote with comment?

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