Senator Edward Kennedy is a lifelong liberal. I find this historically accurate fact understatedly bizarre when I watched his appearance on the Larry King Live show Monday night. Kennedy claims that Iraq is America's new Vietnam. Being a die-hard conservative, I had to catch my breath when I found myself agreeing with such a bold declaration. Congratulations Kennedy, for the first time in the liberal-laden history of your family, someone said something worth listening to. Vietnam and Iraq have similar characteristics. Let's examine the largest.

Fact: They were both brought upon by the ignorance and negligence of the liberal sector. Our involvement in Vietnam was the work of Lyndon B. Johnson, a long-time left-winger, who gained the presidency through the death of Sen. Kennedy's own brother. It is strange to note that this "war," started by a liberal, was protested heaviest by the liberal sector itself (i.e. John Kerry). So essentially, the timeline runs as follows: LBJ enters America into the Vietnam conflict, liberals protest the decision of their own liberal leader, then America -- liberal sector included -- turns to a conservative (Richard Nixon) to solve the problem. This is similar to the war in Iraq. The Iraq war could have been avoided had a liberal, then-President Bill Clinton, "taken the bull by the horns" and, following Iraq's repeated disobedience to United Nations-sanctioned weapons inspectors, taken swift and clear actions against the Saddam Hussein regime.

As we saw, Clinton, so quick to take credit for the fruits of the elder Bush's economic initiative, was equally as quick to pass the buck to the current Bush administration, leaving the Iraq issue to the next in line just as he left the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 unanswered. George W. Bush saw the challenge as it was presented to him and corrected the error, removing Saddam from power and freeing the good people of Iraq. Let it also be noted that the war in Iraq, which was approved overwhelmingly by Congress -- including a majority of the liberal sector (i.e. Kerry) -- was also the adamantly protested by the liberal sector (i.e. Kerry). So, we see, as was the case in Vietnam, a liberal error is protested by the liberal sector, then solved by a stronger, conservative, force.