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Article: The Iraq-Vietnam parallels Election reflects similarities in U.S. policy
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- International Herald Tribune
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- January 29, 2005
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Todd S. Purdum
International Herald Tribune
01-29-2005
Not quite 38 years ago, enmeshed in a drawn-out war whose ultimate outcome was deeply in doubt, Lyndon Johnson met on Guam with the fractious generals who were contending for leadership of South Vietnam and told them: ''My birthday is in late August. The greatest birthday present you could give me is a national election.'' George W. Bush's birthday is in July, but his broad goals for the Iraqi elections on Sunday are much the same as Johnson's in 1967: to confer political legitimacy and credibility on a government that Iraqis themselves will be willing and able to fight to defend and that American and world public opinion will agree to ...
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Article: COLUMN: Teddy's Iraq, Vietnam analogy way off
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June 28, 2005 ;
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... ... past year, compared Iraq to the Vietnam War. I find it ridiculous ... that the situation in Iraq is anything close to that of Vietnam. Teddy K. needs a history ... place in the past year in Iraq. That didn't happen in Vietnam -- nothing even close ...
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