In an interview today with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, President Bush said he agreed with a
recent op-ed arguing that the current spike of violence in Iraq could be the “jihadist equivalent” of the 1968
Tet Offensive in Vietnam, which was “widely credited with eroding support for President Johnson” and turning the American public against that war.
President Bush is right to finally admit that violence in Iraq has reached a tipping point, and that the U.S. is not winning the war
as he has claimed. But the current violence is not a propaganda campaign by Iraqis to impact the U.S. elections, as he suggests. It is a civil war, one that he has repeatedly failed to acknowledge and has no plan to address.
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