Reply #17: "Tale Told By An Idiot"

[understandinglife]

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I understand that he has also held communist Vietnam up as an example of what Iraq may become "if we do not quit." Has he missed the fact that there is no real freedom in Vietnam now? Has he missed the fact that, having deprived the peoples of Vietnam of their religious rights, the government is now giving those rights back as privileges? Has he missed the fact that the non-Vietnamese Montagnard peoples of Vietnam are still treated as sub-human by the Vietnamese and their government? Has he missed that?

The Viet Minh would easily have unified Vietnam in 1954-55 after the defeat of the French. They had defeated all their native competitors. Only the growing political and then military intervention of the United States prevented that until 1975. Unity was not a problem in Vietnam. The government that Bush seems to admire had no serious problem in "bringing the country together" after we left.

Maybe we should get out of the way so that another "unity" government that Bush can praise can take over in Iraq.

Link: http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/tale_told_by_an.html

Bu$h has been spinning so fast for so long, that I think his one most assuredly successful plea to all his war crimes, violations of the US Constitution, and whatever ... is ... "Judge, I'm brain dead."