Letter: Doesn’t Bush see his inconsistencies?

Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007 | 9 a.m.

On Aug. 22, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, President Bush drew an Iraq-Vietnam parallel. He said we should have stayed in Vietnam longer; we left too soon.

He has consistently, in the past, compared the Iraq war with that of World War II and the Korean War. Now 35 years later and 58,000 dead in a war that lasted 10 years, he says we should have stayed longer. Why?

After we left, did they follow us home and attack us here? On April 13, 2004, when asked whether there was a comparison between Iraq and Vietnam, this same president said the analogy is false and it sends the wrong message to our troops and the wrong message to our enemy.

The president says we are making progress in Iraq, yet he fails to address the fact that although some violence has subsided in Baghdad and Anbar province, it has merely shifted further north (nearly 500 killed in northwestern Iraq on Aug. 14).

In his speech to the VFW, the president also said, "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a good guy, a good man and I support him." Does this not sound somewhat reminiscent of "You're doing a heck of a good job, Brownie"?

Is President Bush so inept that he does not see his own contradictions , or is he dumb like a fox?

LaRue S. Boenig, Henderson