alt.politics.republicans

On Aug 23, 6:50 am, dangerman wrote:
> torresdD wrote:
> > /nol/ ?threadID=7160&&&edition=1...
>
> > Bush Iraq speech:
>
> > Your reaction President
> > George W Bush has warned a
> > US withdrawal from Iraq could
> > trigger the kind of upheaval seen
> > in South East Asia after US forces
> > quit Vietnam.
>
> > Do you agree?
>
> Another point that makes Bush's abuse of the memory of Vietnam so
> particularly odious is that he very deliberately *ignored* the lessons
> of the war in Vietnam when he decided to start the war in Iraq. Those
> lessons told him unambiguously don't manufacture consent with deceit.
> Don't use the nation's military as a political pawn.
>
> But now that he has gotten us into a quagmire, *now* he wags his finger
> at us and demands that *we* must heed the lessons of Vietnam. And he
> even got the lessons wrong.
>
> If any of you die-hards were still supporting the asshole before that
> speech, I hope you have changed your minds now.

Good series of posts, dangerman.