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Bush backs Iraq leader, likens war to Vietnam
Associated Press
Published August 23, 2007
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - President Bush, scrambling to show he backs Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, offered him a fresh endorsement Wednesday while speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. "I support him," Bush said a day after he acknowledged frustration with Maliki's inability to bridge political divisions in his country. "It's not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position. It is up to the Iraqi people who now live in a democracy and not a dictatorship." Maliki, meanwhile, quickly lashed back at recent U.S. criticism. He said that no one has the right to impose timetables on his elected government and that Iraq can "find friends elsewhere." Maliki and his government also had come under fire this week from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate. Bush also attempted to buttress support for the war by likening today's fight against extremism to past conflicts in Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Story, 8A
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by Dave
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08/23/07 06:23 PM
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Ummm...Mr. Bush....we *lost* Vietnam just like we are losing this quagmire called the War in Iraq.
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by Mike
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08/23/07 05:06 PM
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It's like Vietnam in the sense that we should not be there, there is no end in sight and it is being run by the most unpopular president in history.
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by bernie
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08/23/07 03:19 PM
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Now Bush likens this war to Vietnam?! Too bad he didn't listen to that BEFORE we went to war.I have the solution toIraq: divide it up like germany. Share the oil. The Kurds are prospering because they operate separately.Shite and Sunni live toghether
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by Tom
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08/23/07 10:43 AM
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Of course it's like Vietnam! Members of Bush's family stayed out of that war, too!
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