Vietnamese Vet responds to Bush: "nobody regrets that the Vietnam war wasn't prolonged except Bush"

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http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=6972160&nav=2FH5

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In a speech to war veterans yesterday, the president linked the U.S. pullout from Vietnam to the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the resulting genocide. He said a hasty retreat from Iraq could lead to similar horrific violence.

In response, the Vietnamese government, which opposed the invasion of Iraq, says the Vietnam war "caused tremendous suffering and losses to the Vietnamese people." And it says it was a "righteous war of the Vietnamese people."

Some Vietnamese people were less measured in their reaction to the comments. One veteran who fought against the U.S. says more people would have died if America dragged the conflict out longer, and that "nobody regrets that the Vietnam war wasn't prolonged except Bush."

[Xipe Totec]

1. The AWOL Chimp and the Artful Draft Dodger Dick

are the only ones that wish WE (not they) had stayed there longer.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Re-writing history.

Our leaving Vietnam did not empower the Khmer Rouge. It was our illegal incursion into Cambodia in '70 that kicked the legs out from under the Cambodian government and prompted the Khmer Rouge takeover.

And it was the communist Vietnamese that went into Cambodia and stopped the atrocities, which they would not have been able to do if we had remained in Vietnam.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Thank you, NCevilDUer! I'd forgotten this, and, of course it was not widely publicized

here. It was the U.S. who CAUSED the rise of the Khmer Rouge--just as the Bush Junta is creating and arming tens of thousands of new jihadists in Iraq and environs, by means of unjust war and boffo war profiteering. And it was the COMMUNISTS who put a stop to Khmer Rouge atrocities and helped stabilize Cambodia, after the U.S. had blown parts of it to bits.

Oh, how we forget things, even the best of us--under relentless, 24/7 war propaganda!

[frogcycle]

3. This flap over his latest inane utterances seems to forget

a statement he made quite some time ago. It was in a town hall meeting of some sort, I guess before the 2006 elections. Someone asked him about a comparison of Iraq to VN and he said "the only reason we didn't win in VN is because we left before the job was done"

I saw the video several times, but can't find it now.


I was surprised at the time that it did not cause more outcry.