Matzzie said the group spent $12 million on its "Iraq summer" campaign, which includes political organizing on the local level.
Bush has repeatedly warned that a withdrawal from Iraq would create a terrorist haven in that country. According to the excerpts, he will expand that argument to hark back to "a complex and painful subject," the Vietnam War.
Regardless of how one feels about U.S. involvement in that war, Bush says, the U.S. withdrawal in the mid-1970s did not end the killing in Vietnam or in neighboring Cambodia.
"One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're-education camps,' and 'killing fields,' " Bush's speech says.
Vietnam historian Stanley Karnow said Bush is reaching for historical analogies that don't track. He said, "Vietnam was not a bunch of sectarian groups fighting each other," as in Iraq. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge toppled a U.S.-backed government.
"Does he think we should have stayed in Vietnam?" Karnow asked.
Bush also plans to cite democracies in postwar Japan and South Korea as examples of what Iraq may become
