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According to Sean Hackbarth, John Kerry referred to Viet-Nam as "Nixon's War" in the Wisconsin debate Sunday. Since Nixon came into office in 1969, and the war started in earnest in 1965 (500,000 troops in-country by 1967), this is a pretty amazing piece of political spin. Most people remember it being Johnson, who was actually President at the time, as being repsonsible.
Now, one might ask, how does the media let this Orwellian rewriting of history slide? Surely they'd be all over the slip if Bush had made it. Say, if he had thought September 7th was Pearl Harbor Day or something....