Bert over at Folkbum does a fine job of piling on about President Bush's historically challenged invocation of Vietnam as a reason for why we should stay in Iraq forever.
Bush forgot to mention that it was the Vietnamese that toppled the Khmer Rouge, sparked by provocations on their shared border.
He also forgot to mention that the US provided support for the Khmer Rouge in the 1980s, initially under the Carter Administration and then under the Reagan Administration, as a means of undermining the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia.
In other words, the US helped the perpetrators of the killing fields.
UPDATE: Other Side of My Mouth demonstrates how holding a 7-month old may actually fuel righteous anger in responding to lies about Vietnam.
Other Side gives a good verbal suplex to our dear PaddyMac and his rendition of Propoganda 101.
Posted by: capper | August 24, 2007 at 09:23 PM