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Bush accepts Iraq, Vietnam comparison

US President George W Bush has conceded there could be similarities between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war.

Mr Bush has been asked whether he agrees with a newspaper columnist that the recent surge in violence in Iraq is similar to the Tet offensive in early 1968, widely acknowledged as a turning point in the Vietnam war.

"He could be right. There's certainly a stepped up level of violence," Mr Bush said.

But Mr Bush has once again vowed that America will stay the course in Iraq.

The President says he is saddened by the big jump in US deaths this month, but says this is a cost of victory.

Nearly 2,800 US troops have now died in Iraq.