The misleading Vietnam analogy  Bush needs to look no further
for killing fields and refugees than modern-day Iraq, even
without a withdrawal.  August 23, 2007   With rhetoric that
would stir any patriot but logic that should persuade few,
President Bush on Wednesday waded into the historical quagmire
of the Vietnam War. Then, as now, Bush said, "people argued the
real problem was America's presence and that if we would just
withdraw, the killing would end." He then listed the tragedies
that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia -- the
Khmer Rouge slaughter in Cambodia, the harsh communist rule in
Vietnam. "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.' " Likewise, he argued, innocents will pay if a U.S.
withdrawal from Iraq empowers Al Qaeda.  The president's
Vietnam-Iraq analogy begins with a large kernel of truth, but
goes astray. First, no serious Iraq