See the video or read the entire transcript of tonight’s Special Comment from Keith Olbermann here. “Lessons from the Vietnam War,” rivaled in excellence the recent postings of Jeff Huber and Larry Johnson about what Bush claims we learned from Vietnam (“We’ll succeed unless we quit.”). The overarching lesson, of course, is that we DID quit, albeit many years too late.
We stopped endlessly squandering lives and treasure and the focus of a nation on an impossible and irrelevant dream, but you are still doing exactly that, tonight, in Iraq….
We will succeed against terrorism, for our country’s needs, toward binding up the nation’s wounds when you quit, quit the monumental lie that is our presence in Iraq.
And in the interim, Mr. Bush, an American kid will be killed there, probably tonight or — if we’re lucky — tomorrow.
