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# Quote of the day
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19025/
- Published: 2006-11-27T11:11:10.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:38.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**by Jessica Reed**

*The third vital lesson of Vietnam, Mr. Bush: Don't pretend it's something it's not. For decades we were warned that if we didn't stop "communist aggression" in Vietnam, communist agitators would infiltrate and devour the small nations of the world, and make their insidious way, stealthily, to our doorstep. The war machine of 1968 had this "domino theory."Your war machine of 2006 has this nonsense about Iraq as "the central front in the war on terror" - *From** [***Keith Olbermann***](http://www.truthout.org/docs%5F2006/112106K.shtml?ref=opendemocracy.net)***'s MNSBC Countdown show***

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