Bait and Switch

"The question now before us comes down to this:
Will today’s generation of Americans resist the deceptive allure of retreat
and do in the Middle East what veterans in this room did in Asia?"

--GWB, speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars
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What a vile and disgusting bait from an absolutely reprobate individual. My bile rises.

Yesterday, GWB addressed a Veterans of Foreign War audience, and scolded with the above statement. As though their feelings of failure are not etched deeply enough. And they applauded, in the Pavlovian fashion such patriotic groups are wont to do.

How dare he confront the men who did what he did not have the stomach nor inclination to do in Vietnam, and now accuse them of somehow cutting and running? The "deceptive allure of retreat"? You would know, Mr. Bush.

And GWB did not heed the seductive call and himself retreat to the ranch? Dressing up some 36 years on in a flight suit and proclaiming "Mission accomplished" doesn't legitimate a lie. How can he utter these words before these men, and not become physically ill?

This is a new height of abuse. I am rendered speechless and horrified before the gall.

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From this month's Jim Hightower report:

Bush's excuse for keeping them in Iraq's civil war is that if we leave, chaos will follow.

Hello! Iraq is chaos! It's not worth the life of another U.S. soldier to try and fix what Iraq's so-called "leaders" clearly feel no urgency to fix for themselves. Besides, the same "chaos" excuse was used to prolong the Vietnam War.

We left, and what happened? Not chaos but -- golf! Yes, seven golf resorts are now strung along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. . .And Americans are invited to play.

--Lisa