Bush ‘a little sensitive’ to Vietnam-Iraq comparison.
Bush ‘a little sensitive’ to Vietnam-Iraq comparison.
Greg Sargent reports that at yesterday’s meeting between congressional leaders and President Bush on the Iraq war, “Bush bristled and was taken aback when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared the current situation to Vietnam.” According to a source familiar with the meeting, “The analogy to Vietnam appeared to touch a nerve with the President. He appeared a little sensitive to it. And he clearly didn’t like to hear people in the room say that the war couldn’t be won militarily.”
UPDATE: New York Times: “Members of the group, which included four senators and six representatives, all spoke, including Mr. Reid, who compared the Iraq war to the Vietnam War and suggested to Mr. Bush that he should not continue with the war simply to protect his legacy. The president was visibly angered by the comment, according to aides, but he did not respond directly.”
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Bristle all you want, George. Holding your breath until folks accept your rosy outlook won’t change reality! Good grief!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:44 ambush has his head rooted deep in the ground. he better hope dick cheney doesnt go ahuntin ostrich.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:45 amoooooh, poor baby.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:45 amImagine this little crybaby when his bubble is finally burst. This guy will crawl out of office and will eventually crawl out of life the pathetic loser that he is.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:45 amYet more evidence of how Dubya is totally out of touch with reality.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:46 amawww did dat mean ol majority leader hurt widdle Bush’s fweelings?
The more slaps across the face with reality delivered to Dub the better.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:46 amITMFA!
Although he may not like it, the argument is a valid one. There is still much we can and should do for Iraq, but not from a military standpoint. The ever-increasing number of troops is actually counter-productive to our other missions there.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:47 amHow come he wouldn’t go to Vietnam, and is so happy to go to Iraq? Oh, he doesn’t have to fight, I get it…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:47 amBUSH IS A COWARD!
Well, we should all back off if he’s “a little sensative to it”. Afterall, this is a man who will feel “attacked” if anyone questions the absolute correctness of his actions.
/sarc off
Who the !@#&*$@ care what he thinks?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:47 amof course the deserter would bristle at the mention of viet nam
April 19th, 2007 at 11:48 amIf that’s the case, then I hope someone is able to mention it, within his earshot, every single day for the rest of his life.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:56 amWhat do you know … bush really is detacted from reality. There is more than one way to skin a cat… why you send in a tank to skin a cat I dont know… maybe the Israelis are setting the example for how to treat a people under occupation?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:57 amhe just has Another Way Of Looking at things, that’s all.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:03 pmBush has grown up in a world where no one questioned him regarding his actions. He believes that his family name, money and title of president allow him to do what he wants and to always be “respected.” The sock of the real world must be very “hard work” for him.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pmI am sure that Bush is over it by now. No amount of reality sticks with him for very long.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pmThat’s okay: I’m certain that there are more than a few Iraqis who are a “little sensitive” to the occupation.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:18 pmAt least LBJ had the decency to resign when he realized his mistakes.
Bush takes pleasure in his f*ck-ups.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:20 pmIn the 1960s we were told “We have to stop them there (the Commies) so they don’t come here.” I was a kid then and I remember it well.
Now Bush tell us the same thing. Every time he does it reminds me of the Vietnam days.
Many of the details are different, but the rationale being used to justify it is the same as it was during Vietnam.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:23 pmOh is Bush boy’s feelings hurt huh? Resign you dumb fool and ride your tricycle at your ranch, in Texas, for the rest of your worthless vile life.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pmChimpy is upset. Boo-hoo.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pmI wonder where Dubious is while the Gonzo hearings take place.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:41 pmPerhaps in Unka Dicks bunker, curled up in a fetal postion, fondling Saddam’s pistol…. my precious………..
Iraq is nothing like Vietnam. This loss has already cost us a lot more than just money and the consequences will be with us for more than a generation. The number of lives lost is a poor measure of the real consequences of a failed, unjustifiable, illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation that never posed a real threat to anybody.
Besides, the “terrorists”, unlike the Vietnamese, are going to swim behind our evacuating ships and follow us home, remember?
April 19th, 2007 at 12:43 pmI wonder where Dubious is while the Gonzo hearings take place.
Perhaps in Unka Dicks bunker, curled up in a fetal postion, fondling Saddam’s pistol…. my precious………..
Comment by Raven
I’ll go with this one.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pmThat reminds me of something I thought of the other day. Let’s pretend that us fighting over there is preventing stateside attacks. Then let’s mix in the fact that Iraq is a breeding ground for new terrorists. If you combine those two pieces of information you either…
1. Must fight a war forever in Iraq with no end.
2. Are postponing the inevitable stateside attack to the next generation, just like our debt.
Where is the so-called victory they are striving to achieve? it’s not even in the equation if you believe their nonsense!
April 19th, 2007 at 12:52 pmGW has always seemed like someone who never got a good ol’ ass-kicking.
He needs one.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pmOf course boy Bush would be sensitive about Vietnam… it reminds everyone that he was a coward and that he went AWOL during that war.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:57 pmI wonder if he’d be ‘a little sensitive’ to an ied shoved down his pathetic rich-boy throat ?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:00 pm“What do you MEAN i have no clothes?! Don’t you know I’m the Emperor?”
April 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pmSociopaths w/o conscience react very badly to reality based input.
Take VT, for instance….
just say’n…
April 19th, 2007 at 1:02 pmHopefully, bush won’t take out his anger on the troops. Bring the troops home, NOW!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:11 pm“The president was visibly angered by the comment, according to aides, but he did not respond directly.â€
Dinkledorf didn’t respond because he can’t formulate thoughts or articulate them as quickly, if at all, as people of normal and even below normal intelligence.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pmIn the 1960s we were told “We have to stop them there (the Commies) so they don’t come here.†I was a kid then and I remember it well.
Comment by lw — April 19, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
And boy did they come over. By the millions. But as refugees.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:24 pmI’m sure he kept laura awake all night with the “oh, I shoulda said….heh heh”
April 19th, 2007 at 1:25 pm1. Must fight a war forever in Iraq with no end.
Comment by Parrotlover77 — April 19, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
That might be the plan.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm“Visably angered”? Should a different view on something trigger anger?
Worse yet, should that anger be swollowed? This is the response of somebody suffering from depression. People suffering from depression don’t always make sound decisions. Should Bush be evaluated for Depression?
April 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pmuhm kelso
lbj did not resign
he did, however, decline to seek another term as Preznit
Nixon resigned
but not lbj
April 19th, 2007 at 2:44 pmIt should remind him of Vietnam, the war drags on and he’s still hiding in Texas.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:35 pmgotaclue,
I realized that right after I hit the post button, can’t take it back though.
LBJ still gets high marks in my book, he had the decency not to run again after he realized his mistake.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pmOf course it is like vietnam, the democrats made us run away after the war was ended and 2 million people died, but you never hear about that.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:58 pm“………and 2 million people died…”. And in Iraq maybe 4 million will die after we leave, be it now or 15 years down the line.
When you go in and destroy everything that makes their life possible, what exactly do you expect will follow?
” Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We’re not Nazis; we’re nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people’s children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, “Well, I hope that they don’t kill each other off. But if they do, it’s not my fault.” – Jonathan Kozol
Nice America values.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:05 pmBush will go down in history ass the absolutely worst president-ever. A deranged demagogue just as much as a war criminal as Hitler for starting a war of aggression. Let Bush & his cronies be tried in the very same court room as Goering, Speer, Streicher, Jodl, Keitel, et all was, and let them go to the gallows.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:44 pmIraq is a worse mess than Vietnam. Bush & Cheney are war criminals for planning and waging a war of aggression. They should be sent to the gallows for the war criminals they are. Germans were hung for starting a war of aggression, American leaders should NOT be exempt.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pmThis is probably too late, but last night at Tipp City town meeting with Bush, someone (purely a coincidence, I”m sure {snark}) asked Bush about the MISTAKEN comparison of Iraq and Vietnam wars. He had an answer all ready. Finally, after a bunch of points, Bush did admit that people died in both.
jon
April 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pmn.e. colorado
I am forced to admit I voted for Bush the first time.After we hit Afghanistan I felt vindicated.Gore would still be negotiating with the taliban. When we first hit Iraq I thought it was good and we should have gotten out of there just as quickly as we beat them.But then we dug in and the loss of American lives increased.Then the 2004 elections came and I didn’t vote cause the choice was between Dumb and Dumber-Harry and Loyd-with the parts being interchangable.Now we are facing the 2008 elections with no real discernable choices.But we still keep spilling American blood for a country that refuses to fight for itself.Soon we will be voting for another multi-millionaire president.Our choices are limited and our rights are becoming more and more limited with each election.Bush is not the main problem it is the institution and we should all be scared and sleep uneasily because the inmates are definitely running the asylum..!!
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:19 pm