Archive - Aug 24, 2007

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Bush's revisionist history

I found myself watching President Bush on television this week during my vacation and thinking that he was a modern-day Don Quixote fighting a battle that has long since moved on. It would be sad, if I was talking about my uncle, but I'm talking about the leader of the free world. I'm talking about the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth. It isn't sad, it's downright embarrassing.

What am I talking about specifically? I'm talking about President Bush's speech to the VFW this week. In it, he compared Iraq to Vietnam. There was so much that was wrong with the speech that I don't have time or energy to break it all down. Let me highlight the most factually inaccurate part.