ABC in the USA reports:
Bush: Iraq Could Be Like Vietnam…
In an interview yesterday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, President Bush accepted a comparison between the current war in Iraq and Vietnam War.
Stephanopoulos told the president that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has compared the current situation in Iraq to the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Bush replied, “He could be right…there’s certainly a stepped up level on violence, and we’re heading into an election.”
The Tet offensive is widely considered to be the turning point in the Vietnam War.
See also here.
And here.
Somewhat like when George W Bush admitted there were secret US torture prisons abroad, after a long time when Bush’s underlings had denied such prisons existed: I have to say, perversely: Thank you, George W Bush.
Thank you for letting down and exposing your well paid prostitute pundits who went so amusingly (if it would not have been about over 600,000 dead, and counting) berserk every time someone made the Vietnam-Iraq war comparison.
See also here.
Iraq, Vietnam, and Bush: joke.
Cindy Sheehan on the comparison: here.
Howard Zinn on the comparison: here.
John Pilger and the comparison: here.
Patrick Cockburn on the comparison: here.
Vietnam war film Sir! No sir!: here.
Dick Cheney and the Iraq war: here.
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Posted by: “Becky Louden” bebecca2298@yahoo.com bebecca2298
Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:06 pm (PST)
Larry Gelbart’s List of Things to Remember on Election Day
Iraq
Abu Ghraib
Guantanamo
Unwarranted Phone Taps
Unprecedented Powers
Unmatched Incompetence
Unparalleled Corruption
Governor Bob Taft
Representative Tom Delay
Representative Roy Blunt
Representative Ken Calvert
Representative John Dolittle
Representative Tom Feeney
Representative Katherine Harris
Representative Jerry Lewis
Representative Gary Miller
Representative Marilyn Musgrave
Representative Richard PomboRepresentative Rick Renzi
Representative John Sweeney
Representative Charles Taylor
Representative Curt Weldon
Representative J.D. Hayworth
Representative Don Sherwood
Representative Bob Ney
Representative Duke Cunningham
Representative Tom Reynolds
Representative Chris Cannon
Jeff Gannon
Representative Mark Foley
Representative Dennis Hastert
Senator George Allen
Senator Bill Frist
Senator Conrad Burns
Senator Rick Santorum
David Safavian
The Vice Presidential Energy Task Force
Three bucks a gallon
Record oil company profits
Anwar Pipeline
Anbar Province
Adelphia
Merck
Halliburton
Arthur Anderson
Qwest
Tyco
WorldCom
Global Crossing
Global Warming
Global Boiling
Exxon
Enron
Abramoff
Adam Kidan
Timothy Flanigan
Ralph Reed
Rita
Katrina
Fema
Terri
Condi
Harriet Miers
The Supreme Court
Diebold
John Bolton
Florida, 2000
Ohio, 2004
North Korea
Iran
Darfur
Stem Cell Research
Scooter Libby
Valerie Plame
Golden Parachutes
Shrunken Pensions
Bernie Kerik
Eminent Domain
Social Security
Habeas Corpus
Ahmad Chalabi
The Baghdad Museum
Tora Bora
Taliban Resurgence
Iraqi Insurgents
General Eric Shinseki
General Anthony Zinni
Mission Accomplished
Illegal Immigration
Intelligent Design
Kenneth Tomlinson
Claude Allen
Swift Boat Hit Squads
Ari Fleischer
Scott McClellan
Tony Snow
Ann Coulter
Expiration of Assault Weapons Ban
John Ashcroft
Alberto Gonzales
George Tenet
Paul Bremer
Paul Wolfowitz
Richard Perle
Kissinger Redux
Duck Cheney
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
Turd Blossom
And finally, the Uniter-Decider-Reader of Camus, Shakespeare and “My Pet
Goat,” who describes the party that successfully prosecuted two world
wars as people who cut and run.
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you are a stupid jerk.the vietnam war early on us troops were only advisors.we lost over 58,000 the next four years.you are probably a teacher or a liberal who needs to read real history books.your cartoon is a distorted truth and a joke.
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Hi Larry Greig, I will leave your comment here, as it is typical of the “civility”, and inability to face reality (and spell the English language) of at least some Bush supporters. I removed your paranoid racist remark, however.
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This image is not true. There were 1000 dead each month in vietnam and a little over 3,000 to date with Iraq. You do the math. 1000 x 12 = 12000 the first year. 500 in first 4 years, yeah…I dont think so.
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Dear Megan, I refer you to the official statistics of the US government on Vietnam war casualties. They are here.
They take 1956-60 as the “”first four years” of the Vietnam war, and say only 9 US soldiers died then, so very much *less* than the number named in the cartoon.
OK, let’s say then that 1961-1964 were the “real first four years” of the Vietnam war. For those years, the US government says, casualties were 16+52+118+206. Total: 392, still not quite 500, but pretty much in the order of 500.
What one may learn from those figures is also that the 1965 escalation, or`surge` as Bush says now on Iraq, just caused more bloodshed.
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There can be {only) self defiance – to commit war is the greatest evils of crime… America has not won a war sense
1945, My guess is she’ll never win another. After all
wars are never won but by tragic insanity.
…And religion most of the time a wicked seed, if it isn’t all about love from the heart, the truth of that faith – humanity’s love proven … cast it out from your lives. Thank you…. “Rem Bailey”
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Hi Arlan, I think you are probably right.
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