I can understand how a coke’snorting, amoral cheerleader-of-a-president that spent a bigger part of his service AWOL could get a few things wrong. Well, more than a few. What I don’t understand is how so many members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars could applaud this man. It makes no sense! Was anyone in the audience that day listening?

Jack Jacobs does an excellent job of cleaning Bush’s clock. I do take exception to one point Mr. Jacobs continues to bring up during the article. He seems to think that the majority wants an instant pullout of all troops, all at once. Not true, Jack. The majority realizes the dangers involved in a quick pullout. A slow, calculated drop-down of troop levels is whats called for here. Starting NOW!

Bush wades into water over his head…again

We should not abandon Iraq, but Bush’s argument is demonstrably false

Last week, with about three weeks to go before General David Petraeus renders his report on progress in Iraq, President Bush delivered a speech in which he tried valiantly to engender support for American strategy there. The audience, members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was enthusiastically supportive.
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But when Bush invoked the specters of past wars to support his assertions, he waded into water well over his head.

Among other things, he suggested that the proximate cause of the genocide in Cambodia was our withdrawal from Vietnam. Absolute nonsense. The Khmer Rouge’s murderous regime established itself long before the American combat presence in Vietnam ended.

Mr. Bush also opined that the post-war orgy of retribution in Vietnam was the proximate result of our withdrawal as well. This, too, is a fabrication.

Jack Jacobs, MSNBC

Read the full article at: MSNBC.com

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