PRESIDENT BUSH: I'M THE DECIDER WHEN IT COMES TO COMPARING IRAQ TO VIET NAM

by R J. Shulman

KANSAS CITY, M0 - President Bush told a crowd at the Veterans of Foreign War convention that as the commader guy, only he could decide when the time was right to compare the confict in Iraq with the Viet Nam war. "Those name-calling cut and run Democrats have tried in the past to say the Iraq war was just like the quag and the mire we got into in Viet Nam. But, me and not them is the decider when it comes to making comparasations between the wars of now and the war lessons of past history."

"Now is the time to say that those wars are the same," he continued, "because if we pull out now, Iraq will be turned into a killing field of suicide boat people with explosions, just like in Viet Nam when we left before the mission was done." When a veteran asked how the Presdent would know anything about the Viet Nam War as he didn't serve, Bush answered, "I beg to differentiate as during that time of war, I got bombed often and took a few major hits that sent the frat house spinning around me if you know what I mean."