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To: bentway who wrote (196067)	8/8/2006 10:42:02 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Actually you are right about the vietnam similarities you mention. As one who supported the war that has pretty much failed to achieve its goals as originally stated, i do believe bush was selling the war but the exaggerations about iraq dont even closely approach the lies told about vietnam. Remember Johnson in 67 said he knew the war was lost. Tonkin was a lie. With the iraq war, no one doubted iraqi possession of wmds or their desire to go nuke sometime in the future. The lack of wmds came as a shock to the US for sure, but also to the french. Iraq was more an intel failure, and then a failure in ops while vietnam was one big lie. I am not excusing bush who in the face of all the evidence acquired since 2003 still advocates "stay the course" which really means follow rummy policy.