The Iraqi's and Afghanis want it a lot more than the Vietnamese. How many Vietnamese ever turned out to vote for a Constitution, or three elections for a legislature? Or stood up a national police and military force? The South Vietnamese Army was a joke and never was worth spit, but there are major ops in Iraq RIGHT NOW, and for over a year, that have engaged large numbers of terrorists and are manned EXCLUSIVELY by Iraqi's. If you ever actually talked to guys that have been there, you'd know that, and wouldn't be basing your opinions, and vote, on false assumptions fed to you by the media. If voting even though you've been told your kids will be killed if you vote isn't enoguh to prove they want freedom, then I bet most Americans don't even have the guts to vote now a days. Most Americans don't vote when their lived don't depend on it. At leat the Iraqi's and Afghanis are making sacrifices over there. 99% of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq haven't given up SQUAT or sacrificed ANYTHING!!!
"If you ever actually talked to guys that have been there, you'd know that, and wouldn't be basing your opinions, and vote, on false assumptions fed to you by the media."
Friend, I know you are just venting so I won't be too hard on you, but just because you think you know something doesn't mean nobody else knows anything.
You oversell Iraqi's and Afghanis and undersell Americans in your post.