The President's visit should remind us of the true lessons of Vietnam:
1. Democrats will, without remorse, turn their backs on an ally, condemn him to live under tyrants and suffer genocide.
2. A faithless, disloyal soldier like Kerry can become a US Senator and dupe almost half the country in electing him to the highest office in the land.
3. That without ever getting a full accounting of our POWs, a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (co-chaired by Kerry) voted to close the issue forever, opening the way for Vietnam to get most-favored nation status (so US companies could eventually manufacture running shoes and iPods on the cheap by slave labor.)
4. That Americans are stupid enough to hand the Congress to the party that will repeat the same mistakes once again with Iraq.
You're right, the United States didn't lose in Vietnam; it abandoned the South Vietnamese. Kissinger negotiated a cease fire, then instead of supporting a free South, Congress cut funding. Sure enough, the Communists took over and commited mass murder. Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City. The Democrats and other liberal luntics want to repeat this crime in Iraq, thereby wasting the lives and limbs of our soldiers who have sacrificed. Someday the politicians will call on Americans to fight for freedom, and nobody will bother to show up.