Rice says Iraq has potential to be a Vietnam-like success - Not The Onion

[NNN0LHI]

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2006/11/19/2417383-sun.html

HANOI -- After vigorously rejecting comparisons between the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the Bush administration found a parallel it liked yesterday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told business executives that Iraq could be the kind of success story that postwar and communist Vietnam has become if its leaders make the same kind of strategic choices.

Vietnam is Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy and a regional trade centre 30 years after the U.S. military defeat, a success that once might have seemed far-fetched, Rice said.

"Thirty years ago, what American would have thought that we would be standing in Vietnam . . . talking about free markets and open trade," Rice asked.

[EFerrari]

1. We need to 5150 the whole bunch of them.

:wow:

[AIJ Alom]

2. No more Rummy. No more Catastrophic Success !!! n/t

[Lerkfish]

3. do all their speechwriters have ADD?

[BuyingThyme]

4. Is there any history that will not be rewritten by these Nazi fucks?

[Solly Mack]

5. I'm in awe

not a good kind of awe either

Oh, the nerve that statement took...

well, now we know why Bush agreed with the Vietnam/Iraq comparison and why Bush went to Vietnam

[angstlessk]

6. I HAD to log in for this diddy...so ALL we have to do is land a few helicopters

on top of the embassy in Baghdad, load up our soldiers and marines and a few loyalists...fly them out to waiting ships, bring them home, wait 30 years and ALL WILL BE WELL...I SAY GO FOR IT!

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Boy, I can't wait. I'm booking a pre-construction condo on the Tigris river

Christ, is that woman delusional?????????????

[Union Thug]

8. Wow, I'm sick from the dizziness... please stop the spinning..

This is one is a classic!

[bowens43]

9. Is she out of her fucking mind?

the success of Vietnam came about after we were thrown out.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. I have the answer. Ooooh, pick me! (Hand raised) I know! I know!

You bet your sweet ass she is.

[NNN0LHI]

10. She says Vietnam's success is due to its leaders making the correct strategic choices

Doesn't Condi know that Vietnam's leaders strategic choices were to fight us like whirling dervishes until we finally left left their country?

Don

[Doctor_J]

11. That's it! Brilliant!

30 years from now, President Jenna Bush can go to the Islamic Republic of Iraq and lecture the people on how she remembers fighting for their freedom!

[NOLADEM]

12. Just when you think you have seen and heard it all

Where to begin with this insanity? Oh man. My head is spinning.

Do you start by noting the place is only a success AFTER we left in an embarrassing hasty retreat?

Do you point out that most Americans don't view anyone who puts Vietnam and 'success' in the same sentance?

Do you ask if there was a speechwriters' strike in DC?

I am flabberghasted at the stupidity of Republican talking points lately. Last one was how we don't want Iraq to turn into Afghanistan.

Man oh man. These people need to be kicked to the curb NOW.

[partylessinOhio]

14. Would somebody put a fork in her - I think she's done!

[baby_mouse]

15. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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