Gergen smacks Willie Loman Bush on his speech.

From Crooks and Liars:

David Gergen responds to Bush’s speech on his rewriting of conflicts that we’ve fought in and clearly understands our history a little, much, incredibly, “fill in the blank“— better than the President. We do keep records of past events. I figured I’d give him a heads up. And let’s again ask President Bush why he didn’t serve in Vietnam along with our co-President Cheney? Maybe they could have helped. Then again they smeared Kerry for actually fighting.

GERGEN: Well, he may well have stirred a hornet’s nest among historians, because there are so many differences between this struggle and what we faced in past, and I think by just invoking Vietnam, something he has tried not to do. He’s tried all along to say this is not Vietnam. 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?

Why didn’t you learn up front about the perils of Vietnam and what we faced there?And Vietnam and Korea, of course, were not victories for America. Korea ended in a draw and Vietnam ended in a loss. So it’s surprising to me he would go back to that to make — and I think he’s going to get a lot of criticism, or a lot of critiques, that will disagree with him and point out differences(Read the rest of this story…)