Olberman takes Bush to task for his idiotic statement in Viet Nam

Several days ago Bush proved once again that some village in Texas is missing its assigned idiot. He stood there in the nation he misused the Air National Guard to avoid visiting in the late 60's and early 70's and said of what he had learned from the Viet Nam War:

"One lesson is," he said, "that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take a while."

"We'll succeed," the President concluded, "unless we quit."

In other words, we lost Viet Nam because we simply quit, and he stood there in the revitalized and peaceful Viet Nam that has resulted from us stopping the carnage and getting out and said that we should have kept the carnage going and stayed. That was the lesson he was carrying into Iraq.

Now I know that Bush is ignorant, that he either reads a speech someone with more knowledge than he has written for him, or if he says something off-the-cuff it reflects something someone in his entourage has said to him recently. This was off-the-cuff, and he has been listening to Henry Kissinger who still believes we lost Viet Nam because we left, not because we were defeated.

When I heard it, I just sort of cringed a little and muttered to myself "Oh, My God."

Now I learn that Keith Olberman has expressed the proper outrage at Bush's disgusting ignorant statement. Here it is at Crooks and Liars. Go listen.

[h/t to Tristero at Digby.]