Reply #50: Maybe if it would have saved some lives [View All]

I thought it was Rummy and Cheney who talked Ford into the timing of the pullout, at least. I think I read that in the Rolling Stone.

One point: Do you really thing you have to explain to a Vietnam veteran and former anti-war protester, who railed against Nixon's "Vietnamization," not to do it in that way?

Much as there are parallels, Iraq is not Vietnam. Pulling our troops out to be substituted for European troops to get our face off the war and tone down the animosity, followed by a goal to put a good chunk of troops out in 6 months and have them all out by the end of four sounds like a better step in the right direction that what we're looking at right now.

No, I don't think Kerry would have pulled a Nixon.