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)