As if the resemblance between Iraq and Vietnam were not enough, President Bush, Livingston argues, has closed the circle for us. Never mind that the original rationale for the war - preventing Iraq from using its stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction against us - has evaporated; the issue now is that ever-reliable call to arms: freedom, ours and the Iraqis'

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