When you pull out before the job is done, that's
"cut and run" as far as I'm concerned.
--George W. Bush, on whether he's fairly characterized the Democratic position
1. Vietnam
We'd been well mired in a quag.
Our allies there were not too strong,
But Nixon left them to themselves,
And they were swamped by Vietcong.
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