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February 02, 2009 11:02 am ET by Eric Boehlert

This was the Vietnam-driven, Time doomsday cover for the issue published just weeks after the new Democratic president was sworn into office in 1993:

Now here's the latest Vietnam-driven, Newsweek doomsday cover for the current issue, published just days after the new Democratic president was sworn into office:

Aside for the bogus way the news weeklies jumped at the chance to hang a foreign policy "Vietnam" around the neck of brand new Democratic presidents, behold the especially surreal logic connected to the Newsweek cover and its attempt to connect Obama, in office for less than 14 days, to the battle for Afghanistan, which the Bush administration oversaw for nearly seven years.

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    • Author by Jurgan (February 02, 2009 2:32 pm ET)
         

      Eric, for comparison's sake, will you please post the Newsweek cover from early 2003 that described Iraq as "Bush's Vietnam."

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      There was one, right?

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      ...right?

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    • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 02, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
         
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (February 02, 2009 3:37 pm ET)
         
      Historical dylexia is a horrible desease.
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      • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 02, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
           

        You mean like this:

        Kennedy: Bush's Vietnam

        Oh the left NEVER compared Bush and Vietnam...only us, how do you say, wingnuts?  

        Do you ever know what you're talking about?  

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        • Author by magnolialover (February 02, 2009 5:33 pm ET)
             
          Where is the cover story in a major news magazine? That's the comparison we're looking for. Also, if you read the article, it puts Ted Kennedy's comparison out there, and then it spends most of the article with the administration's response.
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (February 02, 2009 6:12 pm ET)
             

          I'm good on quite a few subjects and activities. You never did ask me about frogs. If you ever have a radiological problem, I can be of great assistence to your continued health, such as it maybe today.

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          • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 02, 2009 9:44 pm ET)
               
            Why are frogs disappearing off the planet?  I'll wager it's Bush's fault...
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (February 02, 2009 11:53 pm ET)
         

      That's a gimme.

      Why yes he might have a hand there. It'd be hard to pick out discrete actions against frogs given his overal attack on the envirenment in point, and policy though. That's not to mention the personnel assigned to oversea the agencies that have various duties that can affect the envirenment.

      I was hoping for a more fun question, like, A recently synthesized painkiller, supposedly non addictive, first detected in a frogs skin secretions is how many hundred times more potent than morphine? 

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    • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 04, 2009 7:46 am ET)
         

      What "attack" would that be?  Ah, never mind...I'm sure it's more left wing pablum. 

      There is balance in nature.  When one ecosystem falters another will rise: 

      New amphibian species found in Columbia

      Stick to basement politics...it suits you well. 

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