Hanoi fires salvo at Bush's 'ill-considered' comments

[kpete]

Hanoi fires salvo at Bush's 'ill-considered' comments
By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok

Published: August 25 2007 03:00 | Last updated: August 25 2007 03:00

Hanoi is dismayed by President George W. Bush's invocation of the ignominious US withdrawal from Vietnam to explain the need to maintain US forces in Iraq.

Mr Bush suggested that Washington's withdrawal from Vietnam precipitated a bloodbath in south-east Asia - including the Cambodian Khmer Rouge genocide - an assertion many Vietnamese see as a gross oversimplification of the region's complex and tragic history, and Washington's own role in it.

"It is very ill-considered and, frankly, cavalier to make use of Vietnam insuch a way to extricate himself from the Iraq debate," said Ton Nu Thi Ninh, former deputy chair of the foreign relations committee of Vietnam's National Assembly. "Opening this up again can only rekindle resentment, antagonisms that have been put on the shelf for the sake of looking into the future."

Vietnam was "an unjustified and a wrong war in the first place so to start analysing things only from the withdrawal of US troops is really puzzling", she said. "The root of the problem is not the withdrawal, it's the very fact of starting up the war in the first place."

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[cliss]

1. Quote: "It's the very fact of starting up war in the 1st place".

But don't try to explain that to Bush. He uses facts, figures, history, all for his own uses. He also invariably offends someone.

He even compared Iraq with our constitiution; he said Lincoln could have come out of Iraq. One time he compared Iraq with a "Colony of England". He's totally stupid.

What a clown.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Remarkable restraint. If I were VN's spokesperson I'd have taunted Bush for being a coward

He had more chance than most young Americans to show his right-or-wrong, do-or-die patriotism and his supposedly unbreakable commitment to the cause of Freedumb back in the 1960s. He could have volunteered for the Air Force and considering his connections and the other circumstances there's zero chance he'd have been turned down as an officer candidate. But he didn't. And he didn't oppose the war on any moral grounds either.

He simply ran away.

Now from his safe perch he demands that thousands of others do or die, even though his war has been proved morally wrong, wrongheaded as policy, and criminal in nature.

[AnnieBW]

3. That's our Chimpy

Winning friends and influencing people all over the world!

[Maccagirl]

4. Bush himself is the very definition of "ill-conceived".

Just ask Poppy and Bar.

[pretzel4gore]

5. mr 'carrion necktie'

if there's a bright aspect to the junyer bush phenomenon, it's the way the gopigs are stuck with this vile tapeworm-mentality boor. Sorta like a dead chicken tied to the neck of a otherwise good dog who suddenly became a chicken killer...to fix him, olden times farmers would secure a dead chicken to the hungry dog's neck, and leave it there. The hungry dog slathered at the fresh meat just outta reach of its mouth, until it fell asleep exahausted. The chicken turned green, slowly, and lost its appetising scent. The dog awoke every few minutes, recalled its necktie, and violently tried to rid itself of it, to no avail. Thirst forced the dog to drink, despite the progressively awful stench emanating from what used to be a chicken.Water tasted like hell, needless to say, and food? Even days of starvation never overcame the affect the rotting meat had on the poor dog. Anxiously, the dog tried to appeal to the farmer, howling in real pain as the putrid stench grew in strength and no matter how fast the dog ran, the reeking hell still nearly suffrocated it! Maggots added to the....horror! And the fur around dog's neck seemed to change too, until the dog's neck itself seemed to become carrion. All the time, the farmer watched, though seeming indifferent. When he saw the dog almost certainly had forever lost any interest in chicken, the farmer cut the cords binding the hideous mess to the panting beast's neck- the beast wanted nothing but to BREATHE clean air, so sweet it intoxicated him. And never again did that dog kill a chicken, much less eat it!
The dog is the busheviks, the bush supporters the gop and esp the mediawhores, cnn/foxnews limbah humbug woof blitzer etc. The carrion necktie is mr bush, aka the farting decider...and the farmer is 'we the people'

[Selatius]

6. People on the right will always insist the occupation of Viêtnam was a good thing.

No, it wasn't. There was supposed to be national elections in the north and the south to unify the nation, but the referendum was denied in the south, and the communists won in the north anyway. It would've saved a whole lot of lives if the south had been allowed the referendum.