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Article: Some See Parallels Between Iraq, Vietnam
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GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-21-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
President Lyndon Johnson geatures as he gives a speech in this September 1968 file photo in New Orleans. (AP Photo)
"We must not waver," President Bush said last week of the Iraq conflict, echoing a sentiment offered 37 years ago by another president about a different conflict. "We will not grow weary," President Johnson said of the Vietnam War.
Times, Bush acknowledges, have been tough lately for American and other coalition forces in Iraq. Perhaps inevitably, comparisons have been drawn to Vietnam.
Both Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have been asked recently whether they see the possibility of a ...