Far from reality, Bush dares to invoke Vietnam (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

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Published on: 08/26/07

It takes world-class chutzpah for President Bush to raise the specter of Vietnam in the current debate over Iraq, but raise it he did. You've got to give it to the guy: He has some nerve.

As a young man of draft age during the Vietnam years, Bush avoided combat by signing up for the Texas Air National Guard. And there is a persuasive body of evidence indicating that he couldn't even be bothered to fulfill those obligations. While he managed to get a transfer to the Alabama National Guard — apparently so he could work on the U.S. Senate campaign of an Alabama Republican — several acquaintances from the period don't remember his showing up for his Guard assignments. Nor has the president produced paperwork to confirm that he did.

Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, has said that he had "other priorities in the '60s than military service." Shortly after the Selective Service decided to draft married men without children, Lynne Cheney conceived a deferment for her young husband. Still, last week, Bush invoked the memory of America's hasty departure from Vietnam to rebuke those who say U.S. troops should leave Iraq ...

If the president insists on talking about Vietnam, OK, let's have a frank discussion about it. Let's take a hard look at the inescapable similarity between that war and this — both were sold to the American people with lies. And perpetuated with lies ...

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2007/08/26/tucked_0826.html

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2007/08/26/tucked_0826.html

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1. Tom Tancredo avoided the draft as well by claiming mental illness.

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2. At least he wasn't lying. nt

[Major Hogwash]

3. We knew Bush would talk about the Vietnam War clear back in 2003 when he invaded Iraq.

Because Iraq is another war based on lies.

"A Bright Shining Lie" - a book about the Vietnam War.

Read it because Bush is now trying to repeat history by refusing to get out of Iraq and admit defeat.

Iraq is just another "bright shining lie".
That's all it is, that's all it ever will be.