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Article: Iraq is not Vietnam; it could be an even bigger disaster.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2006
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Byline: Trudy Rubin
During the very week when America finally got down to a real debate over Iraq, President Bush went to ... Vietnam.
The symbolism is astonishing. Here was a president who avoided serving in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard, now flying to an international summit in Hanoi. And his visit followed right after a U.S. election that turned on whether Iraq has become a quagmire like Vietnam.
And there was Bush chatting up Vietnamese communists about free trade, 31 years after our exit from Saigon. Remember how that debacle sparked dire predictions that the neighboring countries would fall, like dominoes, to communism? ...