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It's a great point but we have not had a V-E or V-J day in this world war. Battles have been won in Iraq and elsewhere but the war rages and a Vietnam-style quagmire is going to kill us.

That quagmire is the political/media quagmire that helped lose the war in Vietnam after U.S. and allied forces won all the battles. The U.S. administration under tremendous pressures forced the South to hold democratic elections even as the battles raged. Those pressures today are everywhere. 2004 presidential elections, you know. Today political considerations are forcing the transition to Iraqi control too early -- just got to do a little mopping up along side the new Iraqi government? Is that what is happening?

A googled page reads "Build a movement against the occupation of Iraq," by the Socialist Youth & Youth Against War.

While leftists pukes rant about a Vietnam "quagmire" in Iraq and say Iraqi cities are jungles and swamps these socialists folks know the real score. To wit, "The parallels with Vietnam, where the anti-war movement in the US played a key role in forcing the US to pull out, are clear. But there are important differences -- not least that anti-war mood in the US and in other countries is growing at a far earlier stage than it did in Vietnam. And, after the experience of Vietnam, workers and ordinary people in the US will be far less tolerant of their sons and daughters being returned in body bags."

The point of the W.W.II post is correct though premature. IMO it tends to get us bogged down in complacency. IMO it leads to public frustrations with our military as the world war continues while some think it's over.