Sometimes waking up to NPR is a startling experience. We have our clock radio set to the local NPR affiliate and mist mornings it’s nice to hear sane calm voices actually reporting the news. Most of the stories are about important world events but few were as unsettling as the one that caused both my partner and I to sit bolt upright and shout, “WHAT!”
The reporter had just stated that in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars President Bush will liken Iraq to Vietnam. He will warn Democrats not to make the same mistakes. WHAT?!?
If you have read my blog or any other with even a slightly progressive bent you have no doubt seen people likening Iraq to Vietnam for years now. The mistake made was not getting us out, but getting us involved in the first place. Iraq has become exactly like Vietnam without the jungle. We are mugged down in a guerilla war, a civil war and a political nightmare. Like Vietnam, the puppet government is ineffective and basically AWOL. Now Bush is trying to push the whole thing off on Democrats?
I will agree that there was a blood bath after we left Vietnam, but there was a blood bath while we were there as well. In Iraq where the killing was limited to the atrocities of Saddam Hussein, now the killing happens in every street and village with seeming impunity. This bloodbath, we caused by destabilizing the region and arming the militant factions that hate each other.
Bush is trying to spin his legacy, but try as he may, the rude awakening is simply this, he got us into this mess and now he is desperate to find someone else to blame.
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