Bush invokes Vietnam to justify Iraq

I was rather speechless, listening to discussions of this on various cable news programs, but now that I've absorbed it, I don't think anyone says it better than Digby:

Pol Pot R Us
by digby

And here I thought it was the liberals who were the blame American firsters.

Mr Bush compared current calls for withdrawal from Iraq with what happened at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. "Many argued that if we pulled out, there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people," Mr Bush said. "The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be." Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left."Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," Mr Bush said, mentioning reprisals against US allies in Vietnam, the displacement of Vietnamese refugees and the massacres in Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.

This is truly amazing. The president of the United States is actually blaming his own country for the Cambodian genocide. . .For the record, as I'm sure everyone knows, Pol Pot's rise was enabled by the US's war policies not by its withdrawal and it was the newly minted commies who ended the genocide so Bush is, as usual, talking gibberish. . .But, you know, as Bush often says, history is for dead people. (Or something like that.) These pomo neocon historians are hard at work rejiggering the narratives all the time, both current and historical. (I'm beginning to think it's a massive mind-fuck operation done with the express purpose of making us all crazy having to defend the obvious all the time. Perhaps they figure we'll just give up at some point and submit to their will out of sheer exhaustion.)

DM: She said much more, but that's a sampling.