Vietnam Archive Offers Parallel to War in Iraq

By THOM SHANKER, DAVID STOUT
and JOHN FILES

Published: November 16, 2005

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - White House advisers convene secret sessions on the political dangers of revelations that American troops committed atrocities in the war zone, and whether the president can delicately intervene in the investigation. In the face of an increasingly unpopular war, they wonder at the impact on support at home. The best way out of the war, they agree, is propping up a new government that can attract feuding elements across a fractured foreign land.