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GUEST: Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor of Color Lines Magazine and author of “We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11”

Earlier this week in Kansas City, Missouri, Bush accepted the Vietnam war comparisons to Iraq. In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the president compared the war in Iraq to U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. While he admitted that militarism in that region also lost popular backing, he argued it eventually proved its worth and led to lasting peace. Bush surprisingly then cited Vietnam as a cautionary tale for those urging troop withdrawals today. Stating, “Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left. Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people,’ ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields.” These comments come at the heel of the most recent MSNBC poll that show only 31% of Americans now stand in support of remaining in Iraq.

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