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HUH?

In bushies' flim flam about Viet Nam the other day at the VFW, he also threw this bit of topsy-turvy thinking into the speech. Or perhaps some Democratic prankster.

"In 1955, long before the United States had entered the war, Graham Greene wrote a novel called "The Quiet American." It was set in Saigon and the main character was a young government agent named Alden Pyle. He was a symbol of American purpose and patriotism and dangerous naivete. Another character describes Alden this way: "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."

After America entered the Vietnam War, Graham Greene -- the Graham Greene argument gathered some steam. Matter of fact, many argued that if we pulled out, there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people."

Alden Pyle is one of literature's dunces.

He was a willing and, sometimes unknowing, tool for a failed policy.

He is a stand-in for US incompetence and amorality.

I doubt that bush has even read the book. He probably saw the movie with Audie Murphy which soft-pedaled US involvement in Indo China. In fact it turned the moral of the story on its head.

He surely didn't see the one with Brendan Fraser made in 2002.

It focuses on the romantic triangle but gets the political wiring right; the use of benign aid workers to mask covert activity designed to catalyze the situation into war. (We saw it not too long ago).

I think that the wheels are so far off the track at the White House that they can't even think straight anymore.

If they ever did.

Labels: bushies, criminal morons