Iraq is Bush's Vietnam, says Kennedy

IRAQ has become “George Bush’s Vietnam”, Senator Edward Kennedy said, calling the president deceitful and for the first time comparing him to former President Richard Nixon, who resigned in disgrace.

He said truth had become the biggest casualty of the Bush administration, and the US President had misled the public about the war, the economy, health care and education, eroding the nation’s reputation at home and abroad.

“As a result, this president has now created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon,” Mr Kennedy said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank.