Ann Compton: Is this Vietnam? Bush: No. Compton: Why not? Bush: Because there’s a freely elected government. 12 million people went to the polls.

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JPod: Sorry, but if that’s a strong moment, my wee hamster Hilbert could power the house central a/c system by working his little wheel. Whatever position you take on Iraq, it ought to make you weep that GWB comes out with stuff as feeble as that, stuff for which there is such an obvious response. Like, say, that there was an election in South Vietnam on Sep. 3, 1967, with 4.8m people voting, an 83 percent turnout.

If indeed Iraq is not Vietnam, our President, with all his advisers and speechwriters, ought to be able to come up with a better argument than THAT.