View of Bush from Britain, late August

The British publication The Guardian, regarded as one of the finest newspapers in the world, led off its Aug. 23rd international edition with this huge headline: "Bush: there will be no pullout from Iraq while I'm president." The editors were paraphrasing — and mocking — the free world’s leader when he gave a speech to army veterans in Kansas on August 22.
This extremely influential European newspaper added accurate quotations from our leader, also in large-print type: “[US military] The greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known” and “In Vietnam the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of citizens.” The Guardian thereby ridiculed the president for his Vietnam parallel and poured scorn on his intelligence and his leadership. It seems very clear that British Prime Minister Brown, whose reduced forces are taking a hellacious pounding in Basra, will pull out their last 5000 soldiers as soon as possible.
One part of Mr. Bush’s Vietnam parallel does seem to apply: after the 1968 election our shambolic retreat from Vietnam was supposed to be swift, but Nixon and Kissinger drew it out for several extra years, thus killing off even more of our soldiers and Vietnamese citizens. Like Vietnam, WE HAVE ALREADY LOST THIS WAR! As soon as the spineless Democrats in the House of Representatives regain their courage, or look at their deserved 18% approval rating, they must begin impeachment proceedings against our inept president and his wicked sidekick, Mr. Cheney. Where is the Democratic Party leadership on this issue??