'Well, if you've learned so much from history, Mr. President, how did you ever get us involved in another quagmire?'
In his speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention Wednesday, President Bush surprised many people by invoking the example of Vietnam in arguing against a withdrawal from Iraq.
CNN invited David Gergen, who served as an advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and
Clinton, to comment on that aspect of Bush's speech.
"He may well have stirred up a hornet's nest among historians," Gergen stated. "By invoking Vietnam, he raised the automatic question, 'Well, if you've learned so much from history, Mr. President, how did you ever get us involved in another quagmire?' ... It's surprising to me that he would go back to that, and I think he's going to get a lot of criticism."
"This is not a man who's talking about compromise," Gergen emphasized "This is not a man who's talking about a Plan B. ... This a man saying, 'I'm hanging tough.'"
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I doubt if Duhboy learned anything about Nam, except how to avoid the draft and his brain was too fried to even figure that out. Pappy took care of it for him. If Bu$h had anything to say about justifications it was preconcieved and fed to him with an earphone. History is changing allright, but it isn’t because of any ideas that Duhbya has concieved. Ask Cheney about it, he’s so clever that he’s trying to run three branches of the government at once….G:
And that is why the Gerbil hasn't gotten passed reading "My Pet Goat." To compare Vietnam to invading a country on false pretenses is beyond comprehensible from this idiot. But, he wouldn't know the history of the Vietnam War since he was too drunk to remember and being a draft dodger.
Even Gergen is ripping on the Gerbil . . .
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