Bush May Get Cool Reception in Vietnam (ROFL love the first sentence [View All]

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-APEC-Bush.html

November 13, 2006
Bush May Get Cool Reception in Vietnam
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:27 a.m. ET

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- When Bill Clinton came to Vietnam six years ago, he drew huge, jubilant crowds at every stop on the first visit by an American president since the end of the war in 1975.

President Bush's reception at the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi is likely to be considerably cooler.

Clinton was seen as a symbol of reconciliation between the two former foes, and everyone wanted a small piece of the historic occasion.

Bush's invasion of Iraq, which some critics have dubbed America's second Vietnam, has many Vietnamese, their own memories of war still vivid, recoiling at the idea of another country taking on the superpower.

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