The key similarity between the two wars is how they profoundly eroded the American people's trust in their government and leaders.
My 'trust in their government and leaders' began to erode in late '63 and has been down to about nothing for many years. The Current Occupation of the White House has scattered the dust of trust to the winds. Here's why:
"The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me as I look back," Bush told Russert in 2004 (my em), "was it was a political war. We had politicians making military decisions, and it is lessons that any president must learn, and that is to the set the goal and the objective and allow the military to come up with the plans to achieve that objective. And those are essential lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War."
They're lessons Bush never learned and is ignoring anyway. Bald-faced lying, the sheerest incompetence, his political agenda, any one or all three or add anything you choose. Choosing to be wrong on purpose just because he would like it to be right is worse than no excuse.
Americans may not think Iraq is Vietnam, but they are now convinced that it, too, is a political war.
Well, good for them. No rocket scientists, they. It has been obvious since day one.
In order to see even the obvious, one must take one's head out of one's ass and look around, even a little. That blinding light they now see shining on Bush the criminal has been there all along.
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