U.S. Republicans battle charge Iraq war is lost

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

TIPP CITY, Ohio (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans struggled on Thursday with comparisons between the U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam as the Senate's top Democrat declared the Iraq lost.

A day after a White House meeting with lawmakers failed to resolve differences over whether to attach a troop withdrawal plan to a war funding bill, Bush and the Democrats continued their feud from afar.

Asked to compare Iraq to Vietnam, a war that still weighs on the American psyche three decades after it ended, Bush told an Ohio audience a premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq could lead to chaos and death the same way war broke out between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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Later Thursday on the Senate floor, Reid said: "As long as we follow the president's path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course -- and we must change course." The war funding bill should contain a timeline to "reduce combat missions and refocus our efforts on the real threats to our security," he said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1943792720070419

[ShockediSay]

1. NeoCon Chickenhawk Repugs lost the war

from the "intel" to the "planning" to the dissing of Gen Shinseki and every other step of the way

What they won was two presidential elections

[progressive_realist]

2. Since Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia ended the killing fields

That analogy would seem to send the opposite message from what Shrub intended. Unless he means that an Iraq freed of American influence would invade Saudi Arabia and bring freedom to its long-suffering populace. :shrug:

[dchill]

3. Not surprising...

They still won't admit that they lost the 2006 midterm elections. "If we don't admit it, then it's not true."*

* Fake, made-up quote.