"Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, and this country needs a new president," said Sen. Edward Kennedy in a speech at the Brookings Institution.* "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, and this country needs a new president," said Sen. Edward Kennedy in a speech at the Brookings Institution Brookings Institution, at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est. 1916), the Institute of Economics (est. 1922), and the Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (est. 1924). . How is that? Is the long air and infantry slog against Vietnamese Communists, supported by two atomically-armed Communist superpowers, like the Iraq campaign? Are the hundreds of casualties we suffered every week at the height of the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. like the hundreds we have suffered in the year since the drive up the Tigris Valley? Is the conscript army that bore such heavy losses in Vietnam like the professionalized volunteers who are shouldering the load in Iraq? But there is indeed one resemblance: Liberals downplay down·play tr.v. down·played, down·play·ing, down·plays To minimize the significance of; play down: downplayed the bad news. Verb 1. consequences, exaggerate danger, and find ill will in error. They also have surprisingly little interest in the freedom of people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important . Some of the liberals in both wars are the very same. Iraq is Teddy Kennedy's Vietnam--but so was Vietnam. |
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