President Bush: Iraq Will Not Be The Next Vietnam

Recently US President George Bush has taken a lot of heavy criticism from Democrats wanting an early withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Ealier this week Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton said the troops in Iraq should be honoured by bringing them home.

President George Bush defended the coalition forces in Iraq, and stating that removing the troops too soon would cause a bloodbath similar to that in southeast Asia after the US retreat from Vietnam.

“Whatever your position is on that debate (of US intervention), one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms, such as ‘boat people’, ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields’,” he said.

However when giving the speech Bush’s remarks were heavily criticized by senior Democrats, who challenged the president’s grasp of historical fact.

Do you agree with Sen. Hilary Clinton, and troops should be honourned by bring them homw now?

Or are the U.S. troops in Iraq the right thing for the Iraqi people?