Hypocrisy Defined

Bush invokes ‘tragedy of Vietnam’ against Iraq pullout.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (CNN) — President Bush drew parallels between the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the potential costs of pulling out of Iraq in a speech Wednesday.

“Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left,” Bush told members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at their convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

“Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens, whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields,’ “ the president said.

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I simply cannot believe this man. He ducked his own National Guard service which he used to duck out of his own Vietnam service, now he’s ducking responsibility for the carnage in Iraq by comparing it to Vietnam.

I don’t know about you, but to me, that is the definition of rank hypocrisy.