When Ted Kennedy said the other day that Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, it was kind of ironic since it was Kennedy's older brother who got us involved in that Asian disaster.
Granted that when the bullet tore through the president's head on the still frozen in our mind afternoon in Dallas, there had not been the number of deaths and casualities that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon would bring about. But we were already ankle-deep in the quagmire.
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