Bottle of Blog: Winning The Greatest Disaster In The History Of Catastrophes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — President Bush’s chief spokesman drew a parallel today between the latest carnage in Iraq and the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, declaring that Iraqi terrorists are trying to turn American public opinion as the Communists did in Southeast Asia nearly four decades ago.

And that, in itself, should be enough to make every decent, honest, thinking and reasonable person in the country never, ever, ever take a single, solitary thing anyone who's in the Bush administration or who supports the Bush administration seriously for as long as we have to endure this national catastrophe.