Who idea was this?

Our Dear Leader President Bush has traveled all the way to Vietnam. A country he studiously avoided when in the Air Guard. Yes, Amazingly he went that far to... Shoot himself in the foot. He came with a lot of hope and promises to the Vietnamese government. He stated that his bill to normalize relations with Vietnam was in the bag. He smiled and shook hands as Congress. A still Republican Congress. Voted it down. Not even a line party vote, very much expected to materialize on the day of the vote. It didn't happen.

There was an American president facing an enemy that we had fought to a stand still. We won every battle against those people and still lost the war. Those people laughed at us for almost thirty years. Laughed at the foolish Americans that came to set right what the people of this land did not want. That being democracy that was going to be. A U.N. Charter said there was going to a North and South Vietnam.

Well the people of both 'Nam's spoke. They wanted to be a people and so they were. Thirty odd years later an American President with goodies in a bag ready to spread Capitalism to those people that seem so ready for it. But ahh once more Vietnam has proven to be more than an American president can handle. Only this time it was an American Congress telling an American President that the Americans are not ready to normalize any relations with those people.

WTO be damned We here in America will decide when and if we will trade with any one. Its about time that idea starts to get across to these trading partners. Its long past time to reassess our role in that organization.

So now some people will be called on the carpet, but gently. O so gently after all the President does not need an open rebellion on his hands. No not a good thing.

But this President is not content with just having egg on his face. No he has to draw parallels with the war we lost to those people. While the allusions were apt it should have been delivered else where.. Actually anywhere would have been better. South Korea at the very least.

Yes a place where the American people said fighting a war that wasn't going any where and doing nothing but filling body bags with our then young people. Yes, interesting parallels but one that should never have been made in Vietnam.

And to add insult to the injury though mostly through his own arrogance and pride he has to deal with the blow to his ego.. Former President Clinton was cheered by those people a lot more warmly. Former president Clinton was accorded an almost rock star status. President Bush will return to an increasingly embattled White House who's own party is almost ready to revolt.

Its only a few weeks from the November 7th. Its going to be a lonnnggg 2 years.