Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam
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President G.W. Bush finally concedes to the New York Times.
Don't Mention the War
By Martin Kettle
The Guardian
October 19th, 2006
George Bush may not have fought in Vietnam but he knows in his every waking moment what the Asian war did to his generation and to American foreign policy. That's why, until now, Vietnam has always been the great unmentionable parallel. When politicians or interviewers have drawn the connection with Iraq, Bush has always spurned it.
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