AP: "Bush's words on Iraq echo LBJ in 1967"

[sabra]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/education/higher_learning/12704787.htm

Bush's words on Iraq echo LBJ in 1967

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq might look anything like Vietnam. Yet just as today's anti-war protests recall memories of yesteryear, President Bush's own words echo those of President Johnson in 1967, a pivotal year for the U.S. in Vietnam.

"America is committed to the defense of South Vietnam until an honorable peace can be negotiated," Johnson told the Tennessee Legislature on March 15, 1967. Despite the obstacles to victory, the president said, "We shall stay the course."

After 14 Marines died in a roadside bombing on Aug. 3, Bush declared: "We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. And the job is this: We'll help the Iraqis develop a democracy."

The two wars were waged quite differently even though they shared similar aims.

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"The differences are so notable that it would take too long to list them," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld remarked recently.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Check out Yahoo's Photo section

I don't know how to post photos here (sorry!) but there's one B&W photo there that is reminiscent of Vietnam. So the AP is not the only one trying to get out that Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam.
Yahoo also has a photo of * peering over a dias. He seemed so small. It's amazing what can be conveyed in a photo.

[indepat]

2. Jeez, surely no other nation in history would spend so much blood and

treasure just so Iraq could be a beacon democracy in a part of world where there ain't no such thing. It warms me cockles and sends chill down my spine.

[Tower]

3. Rumsfeld in particular is going to go down in history as one of the most

bumbling, destructive, arrogant, unteachable idiots that have ever occupied our government.

He was in government during the Vietnam War, and advocated making all the same mistakes again in Iraq. But for some reason that defies logic, the fool expected different results.

[hippiechick]

4. I thought 'the job' was finding/destroying WMD's ?

... and bringing Saddam Hussein to trial ?

... and fighting terra (even though it was grown in Saudi Arabia, not Iraq 3 years ago)

... and ... and ... and ...


:freak:

[Lindacooks]

5. Well, this is probably the most evasive answer I've EVER seen:

"The differences are so notable that it would take too long to list them," said Dumsfeld .

Well, start listing them, you jackass. This seems to be a repuke talking point - and we need to start calling them on it. Ask them to list 10 differences. No? Then 5. And the fact that Vietnam is a jungle and Iraq mostly desert doesn't count.