The editors of the Boston Globe didn’t like Bush’s comparisons of Iraq and World War II:

The better analogy is to Vietnam, except that the Iraq conflict is even more savage in its slaughter of civilians and more unpredictable in its attacks on US combatants. US servicemen face the stresses of uncertainty and a shadowy adversary that their grandfathers did not experience.

Have these people ever heard of My Lai? Napalm? Deforestation? That was better than the the precision-guided munitions and compassion toward Iraqi civilians that’s been widely documented everywhere except the mainstream press?

And as for the attacks on US combatants, at the height of the Vietnam War we were losing more American servicemen per week than we have lost in over two years of combat in Iraq.

It’s one of those moments when you have to ask if they’re incredibly stupid or just willing to stoop to deliberate historical fraud.