From a Democratic Congressman, and Vietnam Vet, who has, you know, actually BEEN there, rather than talk about "quagmire" from10,000 miles away. The media is aiming for Bush, but are hitting young Americans. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/...l?urac=n&urvf=10642377116960.8839345774896111
"The Iraq war has predictably evolved into a guerrilla conflict similar to Vietnam." Wait a second...isn't he painting a pretty bleak picture here? This article is beyond moronic.
Using the Vietnam template prevents the left from having to think. The press is engaged in this relentless drumbeat of doom. They want the US to fail. I have yet to hear anyone mention that Zogby conducted a nationwide poll in Iraq and only 13% wanted the US to leave. Just this week Gallup conducted a poll in the Baghdad area, where Saddam's support is strongest, and over 80% of the people said they want the US to stay. Andrew Sullivan commented on this piece: The only hope the Baathists have is that we will give up and do a Somalia. Moreover, disunity at home gives the Saddamites and other terrorists hope and prolongs the conflict. I can't see how anyone can seriously want that - not even Howard Dean. In fact, one of the good things about Dean's campaign has been his clear statement that we need the Iraqi liberation to work. But sadly it's no surprise that many in this country and abroad want the liberation to fail. They think it's more important for the U.S. to get a bloody nose than that the Iraqi people get a successful transition to democracy. I can see no other rationale behind the French arguments to hand over power immediately to an interim government that is not capable of running the place. And the obscene "Bring The Troops Home" rhetoric of A.N.S.W.E.R. revals again that their major motivating factor is opposition to U.S. power rather than concern for Iraqi democracy or human rights. We have to do better than this. What troubles me about the Democrats' current rhetoric is not that there shouldn't be good criticisms of what we're doing over there; but that those criticisms should be aimed at getting the process to succeed. Right now, it seems designed purely for domestic political points: the domestic politics of Vietnam without Vietnam.-