When it comes to Vietnam - a war incidently that a Democrat began under George Keenan’s Containment Doctrine, developed under Truman (D) - the left can say the stupidest things. Case in point this from muckracker Josh Marshall:

“According to advance reports, President Bush will tomorrow invoke the specter of Vietnam in defense of his failed Iraq policy.

But isn’t this quite possibly the worst argument for his Iraq policy?

Going forty years on, it is not too much to say that virtually none of the predicted negative repercussions of our departure from Vietnam ever came to pass.

Asia didn’t go Communist. Our Asian allies didn’t abandon us. Rather, the Vietnamese began to fall out with her Communist allies. With the Cold War over, in strategic terms at least, it’s almost hard to remember what the whole fight was about. If anything, the clearest lesson of Vietnam would seem to be that there can be a vast hue and cry about the catastrophic effects of disengagement from a failed policy and it can turn out that none of them are true.”

Unbelievable. There is so much ignorance in just those few paragraph that if there were a license for blogging Marshall should have his permanantly revoked. Of course he’s upset because the President is simply stating a fact of history. Democrats have been invoking Vietnam in describing Iraq for nearly the entire time of the conflict. An analogy, by the way, which has been debunked over and over again. So now they are outraged that President Bush would dare use their flawed analogy in a correct way. A premature pullout WOULD be disasterous to Iraq and the region and on par with the results of a Democrat congress pulling the funding that forced a withdraw in Vietnam.

Of course that move allowed genocide in Cambodia to occur, as well as the slaughter of millions and to those not killed forced into “reeducation camps” in the South. I personally know survivors of this period of time - so screw you Marshall - you’re an idiot.

I know those pesky facts do get in the way don’t they? Democrats - especially progressives hate facts, but the fact of the matter is that a fact doesn’t need belief to be a fact. Speaking of facts - remember that the spread of Communism was irrefutably abated by the involvement of America in Vietnam. It did however spread to Asia after our withdrawl. In fact it’s widespread in Asia, or does Marshall really know that Asia isn’t just a defunked rock group.

Of course the left will never cop to the fact that they bear the burden and political consequence of Vietnam, but the fact remains that history needs no verification. The American public punished the Democratic Party for years afterwards, and now with the inability to learn from their past the American public is again rewarding them with 18 percent approval ratings.