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Jack Kelly: Iraq is no Vietnam
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| 8/03/03
| Jack Kelly
Posted on 08/04/2003 9:26:31 AM PDT by Dane
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It's amazing how many people who have never been to either place say Iraq is "another Vietnam." There are a few differences worth noting.
To begin with, at no point in the Vietnam War did the United States utterly destroy the North Vietnamese Army, occupy North Vietnam, send Ho Chi Minh into hiding and kill or capture most of his Politburo. Had we done so, the war might have had a different outcome.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; jackkelly; rebuildingiraq; vietnam
Hard to beleive this actually ran in yesterday's Post-Gazette.
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posted on
08/04/2003 9:26:31 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: Dane
Dane ! Are you insinuating that the Puke-G is not "fair and balanced" ????
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posted on
08/04/2003 9:36:19 AM PDT
by
smokeyb
To: Dane
Good article.
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posted on
08/04/2003 10:20:52 AM PDT
by
Gritty
To: Dane
OMG!!! This article reeks with logic. Kelly can't be a liberal or a Democrat or is this the only writer west of Ann Coulter that is logical?
To: Dane
Yet being intimidated by the left out of doing what's right, and belief in ourselves is all too similar in its potential.
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posted on
08/04/2003 1:20:46 PM PDT
by
onedoug
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