No light at the end of this tunnel, George

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by Eric Margolis.

Watching the recent storm of car bombs, rockets, and gunfire in central Iraq gave me nasty memories of the January, 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam.

At that time, many soldiers in my U.S. Army unit were departing for Special Forces camps in Vietnam's highlands. We stood in mute horror as TV reported these very camps being overrun by North Vietnamese troops, and their garrisons killed to the last man.

We immediately understood the bloody Tet offensive was a huge political and psychological victory for North Vietnam. Tet blew away for good Washington's claims of a light at the end of the Vietnam tunnel.

Reacting to last week's Ramadan offensive in Iraq, President George Bush actually claimed it proved things were improving, though attacks on U.S. forces have surged from 20 to 30 daily

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1. Nice editing job.

The usual rule is four paragraphs.

Mr. Margolis is always a good read.

[Malva Zebrina]

2. Yes, I like Margolis also

but I am not so sure that Bush is as blissfully unaware as Margolis would have him. Or perhaps he is just speaking in irony--Bush, granted, goes to a hell of a lot of fund raisers and gets praised to the sky many times over each week in those friendly situations--he goes overseas, and gets toasted, treated and pampered, and is not allowed to see any protests at all--so it is conceivable that he is just being "duped" but I don't think so--his daddy, if no one else, surely can keep him advised -- or his mommy--she must read the papers.

[Melsky]

3. Good Column

I always enjoy his anti bush writing.