Bush Compares Iraq to Vietnam Saying We Got Out Too Early
President Bush unveiled a new theory as to why we need to stay in Iraq. Innocent civilians will be killed if we leave, just like they were in Vietnam, where we got out too early.
"The price of America's withdrawal [in Vietnam]was paid by millions of innocent citizens," he told war veterans in Missouri...."Many argued that if we pulled out, there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people," Mr Bush said. "The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be.
"Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," Mr Bush said, mentioning reprisals against US allies in Vietnam, the displacement of Vietnamese refugees and the massacres in Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
The full transcript is here. Crooks and Liars has the video of MSNBC's Neil Shuster on the report.
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