Saigon's Ghosts

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 8/22/07 | INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

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President Bush compares the Democrats' wish to cut and run in Iraq to their betrayal of Vietnam three decades ago. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's reaction proves the president struck a sensitive nerve.

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Speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars' convention in Kansas City on Wednesday, President Bush said our soldiers in Iraq wonder: "Will their elected leaders in Washington pull the rug out from under them just as they're gaining momentum and changing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq?"

The president made his most overt analogy yet to the Democratic-led Congress' abandonment of Vietnam in the 1970s, and reminded the assembled veterans of the price paid in blood by so many:

Will Congress repeat mistakes of Vietnam? "In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge began a murderous rule in which hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died by starvation and torture and execution," Bush said. "In Vietnam, former allies of the U.S. and government workers and intellectuals and businessmen were sent off to prison camps, where tens of thousands perished. Hundreds of thousands more fled the country on rickety boats, many of them going to their graves in the South China Sea."

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"By 1977, well over a million people were slaughtered by the Communists in Cambodia alone, a fifth of the country's population."

The left's political calculations make me sick. they would gladly give the lives of 10,000 Iraqis for one more day in the White House.