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instead of repeating the Victory of WW2.

Please - You are complaining about loss of American lives in Iraq.....yet in WWII we had over 400,000 KIA! - There were many aspects in retrospect of WWII concerning the loss of life (American life) that we would not tolerate today (most of that for the better) - American forces are infinitely more lethal, effective and responsive than were our forces in either WWII or Nam

To suggest we can fight the current GWOT (including Iraq) in the same manner as WWII (or worried about how we fought in Nam) is just ridiculous (and a flawed concept of trying to always fight the last war)

There are truly many things the same in Iraq today as there were in Nam a third of a century ago.

One could say this about each and every war ever fought on earth (that there are some similarities between each of them....that in and of itself is meaningless).

So there you have it. Nam = Iraq.

Simply absurd. When did we ever control 85% of all of Vietnam? - When did we ever have soldiers who could effectively be based in 90% of all of Vietnam? - When did all of Vietnam hold a National election and it's vast majority of citizens dully elect and new Gov't which supported our United States efforts? When did we move on Hanoi and capture that city? - This list could go on and on and on -

There is no comparison whatsoever between Iraq and Nam (outside of learning from successful tactics at fighting a guerrilla type enemy - though even the enemy of today is much much different in all accounts)

To suggest we can fight the current GWOT (including Iraq) in the same manner as Nam is what is really ridiculous.
President Bush allows sanctuaries to our enemies in Syria and Iran, just like LBJ/Nixon did in Vietnam with Laos and Cambodia.

Except for the fact that at least LBJ/Nixon had guts enough to bomb Laos and Cambodia sometimes.

We are in a war of attrition without having the means to refill our ranks with a draft. At least in Vietnam, we had a draft to keep up with the attrition.

This war in not like Nam in the sense that it is being run much worse than Nam. Vietnam had a trained army, our enemy today are punks with RPGs and mines and carbombs. Yet we have not yet beat these punks. This kinder gentler compassionate Religion-of-peace war fighting is not working now and it sure won't work against a real enemy with tanks aircraft ships and a trained military.

Nuking the enemy in September of 2001 would have finished the enemy in 2001.

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