"Stay out of Vietnam"

I heard once that any joke that was funny once will, if you wait long enough, eventually be funny again.

Back in 1990, Dana Carvey performed a sketch on SNL where he, as President George H.W. Bush, was speaking about the impending Gulf War: "And if we do go to war, I can assure you---it will not be another Vietnam. Because we learned well the simple lesson of Vietnam: 'Stay out of Vietnam.'"

Looks like that was the only lesson his son learned from Vietnam, as well. As Bush II's visit to Vietnam prompted the obvious comparison, the President was very clear about what he'd learned from the Vietnam War: "We'll succeed unless we quit."

Um....what? (Keith Olbermann comments)

Of course, Henry Kissinger now believes military "victory" in Iraq is not possible, but he still recommends staying there, lest the country collapse into war. Because that worked so well the last time.... We've gotten rid of Rumsfeld, but does anyone else think the President should stop listening to people whose expertise is in containing Soviet expansionism?*

*(please note that our Secretary of State was Soviet affairs advisor for Bush I - cause that's such a help to us now)