[Peace-discuss] Bush: Iraq=Vietnam

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3512349&page=1

The President's Surprising Rationale for the Iraq War: Vietnam
President Bush Draws Parallel Between Vietnam and Iraq to Justify 
Continued Fighting


Final section of this story:
  But for many listeners -- some of them veterans of the Vietnam War -- 
the president's comparison was not only inaccurate, it was distasteful.

  "I think it's really regrettable to me that the president really has 
learned nothing from Vietnam," said Bernie Reilly, a West Point 
graduate, Vietnam vet and father of a son who has served tours in Iraq 
and Afghanistan.

  "It is perfectly right to compare Iraq with Vietnam," said Barry Romo 
of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. "We got into Vietnam with a lie 
about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and we got into Iraq with a lie about 
WMD."
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