LA Times: Fighting over who lost Iraq

As with Vietnam, the ugly argument over the war will ultimately have a cleansing effect on the U.S.

<blockquote>"The Bush dead-enders. Although dwindling in number, President Bush's defenders will ascribe failure in Iraq to a loss of nerve, blaming media bias and liberal defeatists for sowing the erroneous impression that the war has become unwinnable. Bush loyalists will portray opposition to the war as tantamount to betraying the troops. Count on them to appropriate Ronald Reagan's description of Vietnam as "an honorable cause." Updating the "stab in the back" thesis, they will claim that a collapse of will on the home front snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Baghdad as surely as it did in Saigon."</blockquote>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Display Name @ Nov 9 2006, 11:36 PM) [snapback]346738[/snapback]</div>

While a small percentage of blame goes to the American people, a much larger percentage goes to the leadership of the United States that cynically and opportunistically took advantage of the general American people's fear and desire for vengence after 9/11 to embark the US on a course of their own self-serving personal agendas (be it a twisted ideology, political motivation, or mercenary) and will have negative US repercussions for years (if not decades) to come. It's so similiar to the Vietnam 'experience', that it simply boggles the mind that it could happen again in nearly the exact, same manner.