Why It's a Mistake to Conflate Iraq and Syria, Bush and Obama [View all]

[michigandem58]

The ideologue, fringe Left who have always contended that Obama was just another Bush - all the time complaining that he wouldn't govern like Bush, by fiat and ignoring Congress - have found that new life has been breathed into their meme by the current situation in Syria. Their cheerleader in chief, Rachel Maddow has for days been beating the drums, drawings eerie (and false) equivalences between George W. Bush's unprovoked attack on Iraq and what may become a considered, limited response by the United States and its allies to Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons.

But Syria of 2013 is not Iraq of 2003, and Barack Obama is not George W. Bush. The differences - both in the circumstance and in the leadership - are vast...

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