Yesterday, the president who was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2000, made a dishonest comparison linking the war in Iraq to Vietnam. The only similarity is that both were entered under false pretenses - in Vietnam it was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, in Iraq it was the Authorization for War that was granted by congress in response to his false allegations of WMDs which were never found.
In 2004, he said that Iraq should never be compared to Vietnam because it sends the wrong message to our troops and to our enemy. Now he has flipped-flopped and has contradicted himself shamelessly.
To now say that we lost the war in Vietnam because we did not stay long enough (even after staying 10 years and losing 60,000 soldiers), is an insult, both to those who died and to those who served, which he and his V.P. did not do. To say that we must stay in Iraq in order not to lose as we did in Vietnam, is the height of insanity and one more evidence of a deranged mind.
To say there will be a bloodbath if we leave now, ignores the fact that we should have not entered in the first place. All occupations when ended, usually leaves a vacuum that is filled by a struggle for control by competing factions. That is not an excuse to stay and compound the original illegal action.
These are some of his desperate ploys designed to buy more time to maximize the profits of his war profiteer friends. It is also designed to extend the time to enable the oil oligarchies to get their prized oil leases from the Iraqi parliament, which has been one of the main objectives of this occupation.
Fortunately, we can see through this obfuscation and remain committed to ending this illegal, immoral, obscenely costly, occupation.
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