Bush and Vietnam

I love it!!! A few years back, the old retired military farts were up in arms. It was because of a story on a neocon web site that quoted anonymous sources who said that Clinton was going to take a Navy ship to Vietnam and while there, order the Vietnamese flag to be flown above ours. Oh, the invective flowed greater than the Colorado had Hoover Dam burst. Never mind the story was probably made up. Never mind that the White House and the Navy both said there was no request from the White House to take a Navy ship anywhere. And never mind the fact that diplomacy is fraught with symbolism and what would be the symbolism of a U.S. president taking a warship into a country that was a former enemy. Clinton was denounced to be as bad as Hanoi Jane! Now, Bush hosts the president of Vietnam in the White House. And the retired military folks? Nary a peep!