To invoke Vietnam was a blunder too far for Bush

The Presidents's crass comparison between Iraq and war in south east Asia was the most ludicrous misreading of history

How do I dislike President George Bush? Let me count the ways. Most of them have to do with his contented assumption that 'faith' is, in and of itself, a virtue. This self-satisfied mentality helps explain almost everything, from the smug expression on his face to the way in which, as governor of Texas, he signed all those death warrants without losing a second's composure.

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Hitchens, for most of the piece, ignores Bush's ill-made point. It's almost as though Hitchens didn't even listen to the speech. Bush wasn't drawing any analogies between the wars, but instead to the prospects for catastrophe in the aftermath of withdrawal from Iraq having likely similarities to the aftermath of withdrawal from Vietnam. This of course misses the real blunder: in both cases America, by entering into ill conceived wars with no exit strategy, shot itself in the foot, wounded hundreds of thousands of innocents in the process and lost many brave soldiers to the political egos of its leaders.

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