Bush: Iraq's just like Vietnam!

Bush: Iraq's just like Vietnam!: "I'm not sure if this is the smartest rhetorical tack for the preznit to take:

President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

Uh hunh. Freedom®, indeed. Does he even know we lost that war? Does he know Vietnam is still a (nominally) communist country?

A baby boomer who came of age during the turbulent Vietnam era and spent the war stateside as a member of the Texas Air National Guard, the president called himself amazed by the sights of the one-time war capital.

What's that old joke? The difference between Vietnam and Iraq is that Bush sure had an exit strategy for Vietnam [rimshot]."

(Via AlterNet.)