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In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, President Bush drew a parallel between the Iraq and Vietnam wars. "Then as now, people argued ... that if we would just withdraw, the killing would end." Howls of protest followed ("bizarre"--New York Times; "it just boggles the mind"--historian Robert Dallek). It certainly boggled liberal minds in 1975 to think that Southeast Asia could become worse, after decades of warfare. And yet it did become worse, thanks to genocide in Cambodia, concentration camps and mass flight ...