Ted Kennedy said this week what many liberals have been saying for years, but to hear it from him, it seems very ironic. He said "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam." What is ironic is that Ted Kennedy was in Congress at the end of Vietnam, and he is partly responsible for the ignoble ending of that war. Here's what I wrote previously on this particular subject:

Remember, despite 30 years of misinformation from liberals, that we did not "lose" the Vietnam war when the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973. We pledged our support to South Vietnam to enforce this treaty. It was not until the Democrats in Congress withdrew this support that we finally lost this war in 1975. In the next 4 years, millions of people in Southeast Asia were subjugated or killed.

Ted Kennedy should feel responsibility, not for going in to Vietnam, but for taking actions that ultimately doomed these people and forever tarnished our reputation. He and the other Democrats in Congress at the time left the Vietnamese and Cambodian people to dangle in the wind and eventually be slaughtered while they turned the other way.

Ted Kennedy was additionally quoted as saying:

"The best, immediate way to support our troops is by refusing to inject more and more of them into the cauldron of a civil war that could be resolved only by the people and government of Iraq."

This statement sounds eerily suspicious, especially the last line, where he claims that the Iraq situation can only be solved "by the people and government of Iraq." This line is especially telling, because it suggests that Ted Kennedy would like nothing more than to bring our troops home now, and consequences to the Iraqi people be damned. And, thanks to him and his Democratic colleagues efforts, that is what happened to the Vietnamese in the seventies. If he gets his way, history will repeat itself. And, finally and irrevocably, Iraq will be "George Bush's Vietnam," and Ted Kennedy will bear some responsibility for making that so.

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