George W. Bush spoke to VFWs today, on "...LESSONS FROM VIETNAM..." He did not appear to be joking!

UPDATE3 8/24, still. [Rawstory, via Buzzflash]
David Gergen on Bush:

"By invoking Vietnam, he raised the automatic question, 'Well, if you've learned so much from history, Mr. President, how did you ever get us involved in another quagmire?' ... It's surprising to me that he would go back to that, and I think he's going to get a lot of criticism." END UPDATE3.

UPDATE2 8/24, Correction - John Stewart's "VFW" quote:

"an organization whose numbers (President Bush) has done so much, personally, to boost." [tv]
END UPDATE2.

UPDATE 8/23, John Stewart [~off-the-top~] on "VFWs":
~a group to which Bush has added so many members.~
"Bush's Bogus Vietnam History Kills"
...Adolf Hitler’s Nazis built a political movement (in World War II) based in part on the myth that weak politicians in Berlin had stabbed brave German troops in the back when they were on the verge of victory (in World War I).

And it appears to be the case again today as President George W. Bush presents the history of the Vietnam War as a Rambo movie with the heroic narrative that if only the U.S. military had stuck it out, the war would have been won.

Or, more likely, the black wall of the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial would stretch most of the way to the U.S. Capitol.

After hearing his selective historical rendition of the Vietnam experience in his Aug. 22 address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, one is tempted to ask Bush what he would have done as President in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Presumably, Bush would have prolonged or escalated the Vietnam War, although it’s doubtful he would have called up the Texas Air National Guard where he was safely ensconced, while skipping his flight physical and seeking an early discharge...
END UPDATE.Those old Veterans, God bless 'em!
I wonder how they [really] felt, [on the inside?] being PATRONIZED by a silver-spoon coward, a phony, and friggin' 'Nam-deserter?

"George W. Bush's
Lessons Learned
From Vietnam...
...have shifted as frequently as his
justifications for staying in Iraq..."

*********-MEANWHILE*[*FARCE*]-*********
While Bush was speaking at the VFW gathering,
DICK CHENEY, a.k.a. "Big Time Dick,"
was giving a speech across-town, to Eagle Scouts...
on "HUNTING SAFETY."
[-insert jokes here-]
Okay... a speech on:
'military-strategy;
on "Open Government";
or: Telling the Truth.
Haha Ha, Herb.