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Hosted by: Dick Gordon
Show Originally Aired: 4/29/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK
The Politics of Vietnam
Presidential candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush in Vietnam uniform Email to friend
With more than 150,000 American troops stationed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, George Bush and John Kerry are arguing over a war. But they're still talking about Vietnam.
That conflict, which left 58,000 American soldiers dead, and a public mistrusting its leaders and reluctant to exert American power abroad, is now being used to measure the mettle of the two men vying for the position of Commander in Chief. While the campaigns trade barbs over John Kerry's tossing of medals, Dick Cheney's student deferments, and George Bush's service in the Air National Guard, Vietnam is being used to define character then...and leadership now.
