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I understand that we don't want another Vietnam.
I am also very proud of the Marines and Soldiers.
But I would be ashamed of myself if knowing what I know, I did not do my best to shout from the rooftops that this is
VERY MUCH LIKE THE FAILED STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF VIETNAM.

We allow the enemy sanctuary in Nam, we allow it in Iraq -
Syria-Cambodia, Iran-Laos Jordan,Saudi,and the rest of the middle east are also supplying recruits and arms and morale support.

We allow the enemy to hide in cities and towns were we are not allowed to kill them - Fallujah, Najaf, today, and a thousand places in South Vietnam, especially the city of Hue.

Instead of mobilizing the country and declaring war, and using massive overwhelming firepower we are playing the conventional warfare game that the enemy wants us to play.
All the while, the enemy is rearming with better armament, better tactics, gathering better intelligence - Just Like Nam.

The clock is ticking and the clock favors the enemy. Right this minute they are calculating how to employ WMDs against our beloved heroes in Iraq. And what is our response?

We let them do it. We are trading one dead Marine or Soldier for maybe 50 of the enemy. That is not a win. That is exactly what we did in Nam and we lost. Why?

Because ours are worth 1000 of theirs. Their soldier is some drugged teenager with an automatic weapon, he receives 2 hours of training and is sent to shoot and scoot. Our men and women take months of training. They replace their dead in 5 minutes, ours in 5 months. - Just like Nam.

We refrain from using our Air Power in overwhelming force because we are scared of emboldening the enemy and its allies on the "Arab Street" - Just like Nam.

We have rules of engagement designed by those who are not on the front lines, and we have truces called by those who are not even Americans like the Governing Council - Nam revisited.

We are afraid of the media, of public opinion - domestic and foreign. We refuse to finish a fight today hoping for a settlement that will only embolden the enemy and make it a much more bloody affair later - exactly like Nam.

We could have taken Najafa and that lunney Cleric AND Fallujah by now and the World would have seen that we meant business, but instead we fear the world opinion instead of the world fearing our opinion - again Vietnam to a tee.

The terrorist are loving this slow dance we replay. Everyday they come closer to achieving their goal -

Another Vietnam for America.

Let me say that I want our troops to win and for as many as possible to come home safe.
For the mothers or our heroic men and women in uniform out there, I hope you will not see my comments as anything but

-comments dedicated to the utter destruction and total
annihilation of the enemy as soon as possible; something never sought after in Vietnam.