As the insurgency in Iraq gets bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly, the hawks are falling all over themselves to pooh-pooh comparisons of Iraq to the debacle in Vietnam. But the White House should be alarmed that such comparisons are even being made.
Whether Iraq possessed illegal weapons or not, the important fact is that Saddam Hussein did not use them during the war. Bush's claims about an immediate threat to U.S. Security have already been disproved.
