12.07.2005
Bush: 'I Know We're Going to Win' in Iraq (CNN.com)
Republicans react to Dean's comment comparing Iraq to Vietnam
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; Posted: 11:18 p.m. EST (04:18 GMT)
(CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday added his voice to Republican criticism of Howard Dean's statement that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq.
"I know we're going to win," Bush told reporters at the White House. "Our troops need to hear not only are they supported, but that we have got a strategy that will win."
Dean, the Democratic National Chairman, on Monday told a San Antonio, Texas, radio station that the United States appears to be making the same mistakes it made during the Vietnam War, and the idea that the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."
Dean drew parallels between the current administration's plan to turn security over to the Iraqis and efforts during the Vietnam War to give similar responsibilities to the South Vietnamese.
South Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975, two years after the U.S. withdrawal.
"I do not believe in making the same mistake twice, and America appears to have made the same mistake twice," Dean said during an interview with WOIA radio, adding that he wished Bush "had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there."
(More ... CNN.com - Bush: 'I know we're going to win' in Iraq - Dec 6, 2005) ¶ 21:30
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; Posted: 11:18 p.m. EST (04:18 GMT)
(CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday added his voice to Republican criticism of Howard Dean's statement that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq.
"I know we're going to win," Bush told reporters at the White House. "Our troops need to hear not only are they supported, but that we have got a strategy that will win."
Dean, the Democratic National Chairman, on Monday told a San Antonio, Texas, radio station that the United States appears to be making the same mistakes it made during the Vietnam War, and the idea that the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."
Dean drew parallels between the current administration's plan to turn security over to the Iraqis and efforts during the Vietnam War to give similar responsibilities to the South Vietnamese.
South Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975, two years after the U.S. withdrawal.
"I do not believe in making the same mistake twice, and America appears to have made the same mistake twice," Dean said during an interview with WOIA radio, adding that he wished Bush "had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there."
(More ... CNN.com - Bush: 'I know we're going to win' in Iraq - Dec 6, 2005) ¶ 21:30
