Did Somebody Say Vietnam? Posted by Heather Hurlburt

USA Today's Susan Page has an Iraq public opinon piece built around the observation that the level of public support for Iraq today is about where it was for Vietnam in 1970.

In a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, more than half of those surveyed wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within the next 12 months. In 1970, roughly half of those surveyed wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam within 12 months.  (Related:  poll results.)

In both surveys, about one-third supported withdrawing troops over as many years as needed, and about one in 10 wanted to send more troops.

OK, try not to get all excited about who this means will be elected President in 2008/1972; instead, draw back and focus on the larger point:  this is going to shape American attitudes about the use of force and trust in government for a generation.  And not in a positive way.

So the question is not, how do we not run George McGovern?  The question is more, how can we take the idea of Jimmy Carter -- restoring faith and clean government -- and actually govern successfully with it?  Do we even know what restoring faith looks like?

**But wait, there's more:  Bill Clinton must be fed up with the White House efforts to tie him and every Democrat officeholder to the Iraq war launch.  When has an ex-president ever said this about the policy of a sitting President:

It [invading Iraq] was a big mistake.

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