Headline on ABC story lies

Almost from its inception, opponents of President Bush (including much of the MSM, of course) have compared the war in Iraq- absurdly- to Vietnam.

Never mind that Ho Chi Minh never stood trial; that the North Vietnamese never held a free election; that the trouble in the South was never pretty much contained within two provinces, as is the case in Iraq. Never mind that our casualties in Iraq, even at the present levels, will equal those we sustained in Vietnam sometime late this century. We were hearing the word "quagmire" before the war was a year old.

Now, this piece of nonsense.

Read the story. President Bush accepted a comparison between the current spike in terrorist activity and the Tet offensive. He absolutely did not- as the headline suggests- accept a comparison between the war in Iraq as such and the war in Vietnam as such.

The headline of the ABC story is, to put it plainly, a bald-faced lie.

HT: Drudge

ADDENDUM: Here is a more honest headline for essentially the same story.