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President Quotes Pundit, Pundit Agrees

James Joyner   ·   Tuesday, August 28, 2007   ·   1 Comment

William Shawcross begins an op-ed in The Australian thusly:

NOT everybody would regard it as a badge of honour to be cited favourably by President George W. Bush in a speech about Iraq, but I was pleased it happened to me last week when he warned that the consequences of leaving Iraq precipitously could be a bloodbath even worse than happened in Indochina after the American defeat in 1975. Alas, I think he is right.

One would think, no?

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About James Joyner
James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

Comments

  1. Rick DeMent says:
    Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 17:19

    consequences of leaving Iraq precipitously could be a bloodbath even worse than happened in Indochina after the American defeat in 1975.

    Well yeah, it could. Then again maybe not.

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