UNITED STATES: Iraq withdrawal raises Vietnam spectre
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- Questionable analogy
- Credibility test
- Larger context
- High stakes
- Withdrawing troops
- Gradual withdrawal
- Nixon's dilemma
- Decent interval
- Vietnamisation
- Iraqification
- Bush's stance
- Lessons of failure
- Peace with honour
- Wider war
- Public opinion
- Tet offensive
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