The Charlatan lives in a bubble and history is a foreign language to him. His latest scare tactic posed as a justification for continuing his irrational occupation of Iraq is more evidence of his mounting delusion. His separation from reality is fed by his psychic inability to admit responsibility for the largest and most momentous foreign policy disaster in American history. The disaster is larger than the defeat in Vietnam because the Middle East truly does have significant strategic implications for the United States. Vietnam, a poor agricultural backwater, does not possess an ocean of oil. The Charlatan said in a speech in Kansas City on Wednesday that pulling out of Iraq would cause another blood bath on the scale that occurred in Southeast Asia after the US withdrew from South Vietnam. 
Vietnam did not see a bloodbath after the last helicopter lifted off the apartment building at 22 Gia Long Street, Saigon. The North Vietnamese were intent on reunifying their country after a century of colonial misrule, not genocide. There were "re-education camps", executions of high ranking South Vietnamese officials, deaths in the camps, and a mass exodus of those who did not want to live under communist rule. Civil wars are inherently messy affairs. But no genocide. There was a genocide in Cambodia in which perhaps 2 millions were slaughtered by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. No one knows for sure. But what caused the genocide to occur was the secret American incursion into Cambodia that destabilised Prince Syanouk's weak regime and allowed the Maoist insurgency to succeed. Thirty years after the war to stop the dominoes from falling, Vietnam is a stable communist country with which we enjoy friendly trade relations.
Once again the Charlatan twists the facts to suit his self serving propaganda against withdrawal; just as he twisted the facts to stampede this benighted nation into war on Iraq. If any lesson is to be drawn from the defeat in Vietnam it is that the US military is a very crude tool, and not appropriate for every foreign policy objective. If our nation is to achieve a tolerable conclusion to our unjustified invasion of Iraq then the comments of an incompetent leader must be considered neither probative or even interesting.