You can tell the MSM is still steaming over President’s Bush comparison of a pullout of Iraq to Vietnam. The Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland’s tripe however, doesn’t help their cause

“Desperate presidents resort to desperate rhetoric — which then calls new attention to their desperation. President Bush joined the club this week by citing the U.S. failure in Vietnam to justify staying on in Iraq.

Bush’s comparison of the two conflicts rivals Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” utterance during Watergate and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” in producing unintended consequences of a most damaging kind for a sitting president.

It is not just that Bush’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention on Wednesday drew on a shaky grasp of history, spotlighted once again his own decision to sit out the Vietnam conflict, and played straight into his critics’ most emotive arguments against him and the Republican Party.”

I wasn’t going to print that entire excerpt, but you see the point. He’s a BDS possessed hack who offers nothing of fact to prove his point other than “Bush Sucks”. Comparing Bush’s point to the mauling of an intern? Sure, and the moon looks like cheese, therefore it’s cheese.

But this is even funnier. In his effort to “put the story straight” he completely destroys some long standing leftist propaganda on the war.

“Iraq fortunately has not produced anything like the scale of casualties and domestic conflict that Vietnam visited on the United States.”

Really? For 4 1/2 years the MSM has gloated over the death of soldiers marking, 1000, 2000, 3000 milestones comparing their loss of life to the losses in Vietnam, calling it a “Quagmire unto Vietnam, yada, yada. Now Hoagland - obviously trying to keep the column width and word count in tact - now says it’s no comparison at all!

Whooboy….

As I said Hoagland offers nothing except leftist rhetoric to argue against what was again an entirely accurate comparison. You can tell that President Bush hit home.