It was not a "humanitarian tragedy" in the sense that an earthquake or flood is - the deaths of the boat people were the direct results of the Communist invasion of South Vietnam
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President [[George W. Bush]] compared the humanitarian tragedy of the Vietnam boat people to the devastating result of a pull out from Iraq before the government is stable. He said in a speech during the 2007 Veterans of Foreign Wars conference,
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President [[George W. Bush]] compared the enormous suffering and huge number of deaths of the Vietnam boat people to the devastating result of a pull out from Iraq before the government is stable. He said in a speech during the 2007 Veterans of Foreign Wars conference,