Shameful war

From Bob Herbert's 8/10 column:

Senator John McCain -- "It [is] a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn't support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay."

McCain is writing about Vietnam, but this quote clarifies why so many people compare Bush's war with Vietnam.