We think the Pathetic Boosh made a big grave error today

[tibbiit]

Tieing Vietnam and Iraq together in the minds of the everday american (sheep)

Only the most right-tard wingnut thinks we could have won in Viet Nam... if Only we had.... (take your pick of ways)
By claiming Iraq and Viet Nam are the same- cements in the average joe's mind what they have been thinking for years now... Oh Shit another Viet Nam.

Boosh stepped in it today with that analogy.
tib

[madokie]

1. Yeah I'm seeing it that way too

[HughMoran]

2. That's a pleasant way of viewing what the imbecile said

I think I will adopt this viewpoint as it is more productive than just dwelling on how much of an utter jackass Bush is.

[uppityperson]

3. By claiming we should've stayed in Viet Nam and saying we need to stay in Iraq for the same reason?

Yup. The more of this he spews, the better.

[Gman]

4. Bush wasn't addressing the general public

he was stirring up the base getting ready for the Iraq report next month. Bush's base loved VietNam.

[Avalux]

6. Yep - you're absolutely correct.

That speech today was aimed at his faithful little group of idiots.

[XOKCowboy]

9. Except for the fact it was widely reported over the weekend...

that he would be tying Vietnam to the occupation of Iraq. It was in every paper I read today and I heard it on even on a classic rock radio station newsbreak. That information was fed out by the White House for the widest possible coverage. It's a bonehead move IMHO.

[spag68]

5. The two wars

are the same in so far as it was widely known in high places by 1967, that nam was un winnable.same thing with Iraq, they knew it too was lost.

[Nite Owl]

7. It also brings to mind the fact

that he didn't bother going when it was his turn and now he is so willing to use our kids like they were expendible products for his war.

[Raejeanowl]

8. He Needs To Be Asked

Folks, don't shoot me down on the chronology.

He needs to be asked if what he is saying is that Nixon's "withdrawal with honor" was a mistake, OR on what basis he is comparing the not-quite-five-year Iraqi war with our far more lengthy (15+ years?) involvement in Vietnam. Did he think a GOP president withdrawing after 15 years and continuing failures was still a mistake?

[libodem]

10. yuck

I've listened to a few conservatives in my day go on and on about how we could have won, Viet Nam, if we had been allowed to bomb Hanoi, not had certain restrictions on rules of engagement, just killed everyone in sight. In my heart, I believe, that Shock and Awe was the repressed rage of the Warhawks, still trying to win, Viet Nam. (If they had just had all that fire power back then to bomb those poor dear people back to the stone age.) I believe they took that repressed collective frustration and took it out on Iraq, figuring they could win, if they Shock and Awed the hell out of that country right up front. Well, the stupid, dumb fucks lost their momentum and now in stomping out the forest fire they have spread sparks and flames everywhere. We are so far behind the power curve that the edge we may have once had is fucking gone! Now it is the same as Viet nam and they need to execute the entire country to get rid of the last person who hates us over there. We messed up. If we didn't get on top of it while we had the slim chance, by having enough troops to start with, we never will. Now, the civil war is raging in ernest. We are standing in the middle of people shooting at each other. We are choosing the side of the Sunni's after all this debathification, by arming them. We can't pour enough troops in there now, because we have already lost the advantage. The whole war couldn't have been orchestrated any more stupidly if they had tried. In fact it appears they fucked up on purpose just to keep the no-bid contractors in lucrative contracts. Cheney's getting rich, that is all that matters. Big oil is damping down the oil production to keep the price per barrel high. War profiteering trumps strategy.

[libodem]

11. He made a grave error

because the news organizations can juxtaposition his earlier statements of huffily denying any similarity to the 'quagmire'.

[jgraz]

12. You misunderestimate the stupidity of his supporters

Bush will never lose that last 25% unless he starts agreeing with the Democrats on something.

[librechik]

13. like immigration?

his racist followers dropped him like a dog turd over his guest worker progrqm. Instead of treating brown people like guests, they all want a lynch party.

[jgraz]

14. Egg-zactly

[Pawel K]

15. Well as you know Bush recently became brain dead.

That's the only explaination as to why he would do something like this. What a coked out fucktard, I can't believe we have to live through another 16 months of this shit.