See below AFP report on Bush's claim that comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam are false.
Here may be the reasons why that idiot think that way :
1. One happened in the 20th century, the other in 21st
2. One was started by Truman, the other by Bush
3. One the U.S. continued from immediately where the French left off, the other 40 years after the British left off (hey, if you want to pick on this, remember they had wanted to whack Iraq since 1990 hor)
4. One war started after the US torpedoed elections promised by the French, the other started before the US torpedoed free elections (supposedly because it was not suitable for the country they attacked)
5. One started after they claimed Truman’s military advisers did not do a good enough job, the other after they claimed the UN inspectors did not
6. One was supposedly inspired by ‘evil’ Marx, the other by ‘evils’ Saddam & Osama (see there are 2 evils for this one, so more evil lah)
7. One was against ‘evil’ Communism, the other against ‘evil’ Islamism/terrorism (see, more evils again)
8. One was against ‘illegal’ yellow faced commies, the other ‘illegal’ non-yellow Shites and Sunnis (evil nevertheless)
9. One was whacked supposedly for having WI (wrong idea), the other for having WMD (more evil, the US having more of both notwithstanding)
10. One was conducted with conventional arms, the other by high tech weapons (ha, finally a non evil way of killing those evil fellas)
11. One they managed to get the locals to kill each other, the other they have yet to (see, one was not entirely their fault)
12. Which is why one they managed to get 6 million killed, the other only 30,000 (shucks, what a big difference)
13. And the ‘kill ratio’ for one is 1 of theirs to 100 of everyone else, while the other is worse at 1 to 50 (more disappointment)
14. One made tones of money for the US military complex, the other for that, the oil companies and others like ‘security contractors’ etc. (this makes up for all the disappointments. And you see the beauty of free market? Now, thanks to the ingenuity of America’s businessmen, the world has a new business line called ‘security contracting’. Compare that to the Spaniards 500 years ago when they only had the Conquistadors which is why the Spanish were so happy to go along on this one)
15. One they managed to only destroy, the other they have a chance to stay around after the destruction for ‘rebuilding’ efforts (always mean more money that way)
16. One they have to bluff idiots like my parents, the other they have to bluff idiots like me (ha, they failed on both counts on this one! Even my father, as uneducated as he was, could see through them. In fact, one of my most memorable sight was my old man laughing every time a James Bond or Rambo movie came to town. His comment was: if the Americans had a few of those fellas in Vietnam they would have had it easy)
17. One was shown on TVs by reporters they lost control of, the other by reporters they did not
18. One’s war frenzy was whipped up with the help of the likes of Time magazine, the other by Fox TV
19. One took place before the world of internet, the other after
20. One took the world about 20 years to realize what happened, the other the world realized it 2 years before it happened! (why do you think the French, Germans etc. were against it even before it started?)
21. One they tried to be funny at Mao’s backyard, the other at the Ayatollah’s
22. One they lost, the other they have yet to
23. One ended when their own protesters invaded Washington, the other started when some foreigners with nothing to do with Iraq attacked Washington
24. One the Israelis were not there to cheer about, the other Israeli agents were caught cheering when it happened.
25. One ended shortly after Nixon tried to cheat to stay elected, the other started shortly after Bush cheated to be elected.
You see, everything was so different. Bush is no idiot and he is right (the neo-con type, hor).
WASHINGTON (AFP) President George W. Bush was holding his first press conference of this election year, hoping to reassure Americans after the bloodiest two weeks in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad a year ago.
Bush Tuesday warned against the "unthinkable" consequences of failing to rebuild Iraq and set it on course for democracy, saying that would embolden terrorism worldwide. "The consequences of failure in Iraq would be unthinkable," he told a press conference. "Everyone against America would celebrate, proclaiming our weakness."
Bush also said he would send additional forces to Iraq if needed, and vowed to stand by a plan to transfer Iraq to self-rule on June 30 despite deadly clashes between US-led forces and Shiite and Sunni insurgents.
"On June 30th, Iraqi sovereignty will be placed in Iraqi hands," Bush said in a lengthy opening statement at the start of just his third primetime news conference since taking office in January 2001.
Bush flatly rejected as "false" comparisons between deadly fighting in Iraq and the bloody Vietnam war that bitterly divided the US public.
"I think the analogy is false," he told reporters at just his third prime-time press conference since taking office in January 2001.
"I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops and sends a wrong message to the enemy but this is hard work," he added after some commentators and critics raised the specter of Vietnam following the two bloodiest weeks of fighting in Iraq since Baghdad fell a year ago.
Bush warned that radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must answer the charges against him and disband his illegal militia.
"Al-Sadr must answer the charges againt him and disband his illegal militia," Bush said of al-Sadr, who is believed to be in hiding but has continued to send messages to supporters urging action against the US occupation.
He tied radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters have clashed with US forces in Iraq, to extremist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
In a lengthy opening statement at the third prime-time press conference of his presidency, Bush said al-Sadr led an illegal militia and had in "public supported the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah."
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