Nation Building 101

[xoxoxoBruce]

No smoking gun in Vietnam. None in Iraq. Both wars started because a President and his administration outrightly lied. That alone is enough to make Iraq and VietNam equivalent.

Well, they did stage the Tonkin Gulf crap.

If people were welcoming Americans, then you should not have seen the pavement - just like citied liberated in WWII.

WW II had opposing armies and a front. The cities were behind enemy lines then they weren’t. When we went into a city, the enemy left. In Iraq there was no front, the war was everywhere in that no matter how quiet it was at the moment, the shit could hit the fan, instantly. When we went into Baghdad the enemy didn’t leave, they changed their clothes, and everyone knew it.

They refuse to first learn the lessons of history - which is why a lying American president can get away with more outright lies - what some will dismiss only as spin.

It appears to me that the Bush gang never made the transition from campaign mode, where everything is "spin", to administration mode, where they should be playing square with the American people.