Well, there's probably even more in Gore's augury than what Buchanan asserts: I think he sees Iraq turning into a deadly morass for America, as do I. Perhaps Gore doesn't want the extricating process for THIS ONE to last so long as the one for Vietnam did, and wants the country to be in a position to abandon a lost cause FAST. Dean would get us out in 2004, Gore in 2008, but at least it wouldn't last more than a decade, like Vietnam did.