President Bush in one of his “If we only knew now what we knew then” kinda speeches. Picks possibly the worst place in the world to talk about the failures of the Vietnam war!
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. President George W. Bush said Friday the United States’ unsuccessful war in Vietnam three decades ago offered lessons for the American-led struggle in Iraq.
“We’ll succeed unless we quit,” Bush said shortly after arriving in this one-time war capital.
Bush met here with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of America’s strongest allies in Iraq, Vietnam and other conflicts.
The president said there were lessons to be learned from the divisive Vietnam war — the longest conflict in U.S. history — as the United States wages an unpopular war in Iraq.
“We tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take a while,” the president said.
He called the Iraq war a “great struggle” and said, “It’s just going to take a long period of time for the ideology that is hopeful — and that is an ideology of freedom — to overcome an ideology of hate.”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/16/bush.hanoi.ap/index.html
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