"If we allow Vietnam to fall, tomorrow we’ll be fighting [communists] in Hawaii, and next week in San Francisco."
--lyndon b. johnson, scaring the public into believing a withdrawal from vietnam would incite violent communist repercussions. we eventually left vietnam, and nothing happened. if anything, the communist tensions eased up a bit
"we're fighting [the terrorists] over there, so that we don't have to fight them here"
--george w. bush, scaring the public into believing a withdrawal from iraq will lead to violent repercussions. if anything, in all likelihood, the terrorism problem would decrease after a withdrawal from iraq, seeing as the terrorist problem has gotten worse since the war began, and seeing as the problem has only gotten worse in countries that support the iraq war. ironic, huh?
2007-11-05
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