Those are the not-so-wise words of Michael Deaver, former aide to St. Ronnie Reagan. Deaver, speaking from the Republicans' home base on Pluto, opined to the LA Times:
There aren't student demonstrators all over the country. There aren't National Guardsmen tear-gassing people.... We're a long way from that.
Ah, now I get it! The fact that more Americans now oppose the Iraq war than probably ever opposed Vietnam is irrelevant. The fact that more people now blame George Bush than Saddam Hussein for starting the war is immaterial.
Iraq isn't like Vietnam because there aren't rioting students in the street (which is lucky because all the National Guard are in Iraq and unavailable to quell traitorous liberals).
My actual, fact-free point after the jump.
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