25, August 2007 IRAQ & VIETNAM
Once again, President Bush, in an act extreme of folly and desperation has offered yet another reason to ‘stay the course’ in Iraq He claims that a hasty exit from our illegal and ill-fated occupation of Iraq will condemn the Iraqis to a similar fate suffered by the Vietnamese and Cambodians after our hasty departure from their respective counties. Conveniently omitted from Bush’s speech is the inconvenient truth that we attacked Vietnam to install a puppet South Vietnamese government to forestall the democratic will of the people who would have elected a Communist government by popular mandate.
The killing fields of Cambodia were a direct consequence of our intervention and bore no connection to our withdrawal. The boat people had little choice but to flee after they were abandoned by their protectors. Contrary to predictions by Kissinger and Nixon, dominoes did not fall and Communism in modern day Vietnam has assumed a distinctive capitalist flavor. However, our legacy of Vietnam lives on effecting the health and wellbeing of the people. Our massive bombing using napalm, land mines and chemical defoliate, Agent Orange, continues to abort the lives of innocent people. The high cancer rate and abnormal births are a tragic commentary to our ill-fated foreign policy blunder. Tragically, Iraqis are suffering similar health problems from our indiscriminate use of depleted uranium. The puppet Iraqi government will no doubt beat a hasty retreat at the first sign of a US withdrawal from Iraq.
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