Vietnam

Thank you, GV.

Even when the words in question have had 40 years' worth of sacred, timeless truth seeping into each and every one of them.

Sometimes the sheer stupidity of the Republican Party is amazing. And they never...never...NEVER can admit a mistake even when thousands of lives are lost because they can't admit a mistake.

For all those Democrats who believed that we were getting ourselves into another Vietnam when we invaded Iraq, here is the proof: Bush is getting advice from Henry Kissinger, the architect of our great failure in Vietnam. From Salon.com:

September 29,2006 | NEW YORK -- Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush and Vice President Cheney about Iraq, telling them that "victory is the only meaningful exit strategy," author and journalist Bob Woodward said.

The Washington Post editor's third book on the Bush administration, "State of Denial," comes out next week.

In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," Woodward said that U.S. troops and their allies are being attacked, on average, every 15 minutes.

"The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better.'"

He said Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been telling Bush and Cheney that "in Iraq, he declared very simply, 'Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'"