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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:26 AM Original message |
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout |
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Stargleamer (636 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. Does the idiocy ever stop? n/t |
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here_is_to_hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 09:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. Nope, they got it in buckets, laying around everywhere. n/t |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. And yet, now, Vietnam is mostly friendly to the U.S. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
44. There is something about stopping the occupation and |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. Thank you, President Bush! No better way to make regular people hate your war. |
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deacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. So bush is admitting he started another Vietnam-like war to defend |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. And where was he in Vietnam? |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
6. some days I really really want to.......** at him!! |
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calteacherguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. Only Rove, scum as he is, could have thought of an argument this twisted. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 07:20 AM Response to Reply #7 |
27. oh yes, Rove is still pulling the strings. |
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phatkatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
30. This is an old argument * used before |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 11:31 AM Response to Reply #30 |
41. that's the episode where he told the Vietnamese we could've beaten them easily! |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
8. You can only put off the inevitable US embassy takeover scene. |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 10:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
36. Remember, we had the Pentagon Papers leaked showing DoD KNEW the war was lost from Day One |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. Speech will be latest White House attempt to try to reframe the debate over Iraq |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-23-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #9 |
47. after so many false premises and rationales -- now this...Vietnam |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
10. and now we trade with the vietnamese |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. No Mr. Bush. One unmistakable legacy of VietNam is that a flawed foreign policy |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 11:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
39. And now higher coffee prices. Vietnam 2nd to Brazil... |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. knew it |
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Scooter24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. Grasping at straws... |
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lvx35 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. We could STILL be in Viet Nam today, and we screwed it up???? |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
15. Vietnam was "over" in 1968. |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
16. Bush** Thinks We Should Still Be Fighting in Vietnam, 40+ Years Later!?!!! |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
37. Sen McCain, quoted by NYT's Bob Herbert in column "Heads In The Sand" |
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onewholaughsatfools (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. well we all know this!!!!! |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. "speech will invoke other historical comparisons from ...." |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 02:50 AM Response to Original message |
19. Terror, guilt, and extortion. That's the MO of the ChimpCo regime-- |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
20. OMG... he is invoking the "killing fields" as justification for staying in Iraq??? |
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Binka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
45. I Screamed And Fell On The Floor When He Made That Statement |
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133724 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
21. Hummmm; Bush fought them (viet cong) over here so he didn't have to fight them over there... |
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global1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
22. "The Price Of America's Withdrawal Was Paid By Millions Of Innocent Citizens," |
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skip fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
23. Data to put Iraq Report in perspective |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
24. So he thinks leaving Vietnam was a mistake? |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
25. I thought Iraq was nothing like Vietnam.... |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 10:43 AM Response to Reply #25 |
38. It's exactly like Vietnam only we're in a time warp...it's 1967-68 all over again |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
26. Ahh yes, let's further cloud the debate by re-fighting the ins and outs of the failed Vietnam policy |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
28. I saw this headline and all I could think was |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
29. In another speech later this afternoon... |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
31. Dumbest. Argument. Ever. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
32. I think Junior's speech was meant for the American Legion |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
33. How "we" got into Vietnam? |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
35. Hmm. Has Bush read Decent Interval ? I guess this is what 'surge' is all about |
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humbled_opinion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
40. Its not hard to understand ... |
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dbt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
42. And what was the penalty for wartime desertion back in Viet Nam? |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
43. Ohhhh, if we only had a media that would call him on this junk |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-22-07 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
46. And Iraq is to Vietnam as Iran is to Cambodia |
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