Bush sees possible Iraq-Vietnam parallel | Top News | Reuters.com

Bush sees possible Iraq-Vietnam parallel | Top News | Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush says he sees a possible parallel in the increase in violence in Iraq and the 1968 Tet offensive that prompted Americans to lose support for the Vietnam War.

But the White House on Thursday said the president had not been making the analogy that Iraq had reached a similar turning point. Instead, he was saying that insurgents were possibly increasing violence to try to influence coming U.S. elections.

Bush was asked in an ABC News interview on Wednesday whether he agreed with an opinion by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that the current violence in Iraq was 'the jihadist equivalent of the Tet offensive.'

Bush responded: 'He could be right. There's certainly a stepped-up level of violence, and we're heading into an election.'" Read complete post here.