Is Iraq turning into the next vietnam?
338232
Partner, according to your name you are or were a Seabee with the Navy?  If you served in Nam as I did than you know that Iraq is another Vietnam.  A "war" concocted by inept politicians whose only goal is to become more powerful at the expense of the lives of young men and women.  They declare their intentions and then when proven wrong they will not back down and continue this folly, we do not seem to learn from our mistakes.  Iraq is not turning into the next Vietnam it is the next Vietnam and in another 8 to 10 years we will be asking is _______ the next Iraq??\n\nYou probably have seen the quote that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same action and expect a different result, well that is what we are doing in Iraq.\n\nI certainly hope you and many others agree with me and will use the power of the vote to help clean up this country.
252858
Should we have pulled out of Vietnam?  Yes, we should pull out of Iraq.
34728
Well, forst of all there is no comparison between Iraq and Vietnam.  One was essentially a Civil War and the other is a nation under seige by foreign terrorists.\n\nFighting in that region of the world will never end.  It has been happening for over 3,000 years, and will go on for aother 3,000 years.  It is going to take a change inmindset in order for it to stop.\n\nDo I think the current conflict will end?  Yes, when the people of Iraq take controll of their own nation, and are able to stop the terrorists that have infiltrated their country.\n\nOf course, it does not help when neighbors like Syria and Iran help those terrorists.
743287
Just about all wars see major shifts in goals and tactics at some point making the original goals and tactics obsolete.  If we leave Iraq tomorrow the result would be a major power struggle resulting in a winner.  that winner will be the badest of the bunch and most likely hate the west.  We will leave him the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world.  He will spend that oil wealth on exporting terror with the best weapons money can buy.  We are part of this world we better have a force there!!
806938
I think I understand what your asking.  Now that Democrats have control of congress and if the next election is successful for them.. what will happen?  I don't know that answer, but hopefully the next two years will have brought Iraq the independence it needs to govern and protect itself form the insurgents.  So that if we do pull out more aggressively all of this wont have been for nothing.
1072268
I think he served his country honorably in Vietnam but has become Vietnam-obsessed and just repeats his assertion that Iraq is unwinnable. We have  removed Saddam, killed his sons, killed Zarqawi, established a democracy that people actually participate in (even more than they do here) and trained thousands of Iraqis to take over when we are gone. We have made enormous strides in just 3 short years.\n\nSGT/USMC 2000-2004
729995
Overestimation of their military power, lack of knowledge on the internal structures in Vietnam, ignoring the facts and a strong believe  that everything the US does is automatically the right thing.\n\nBasically the same like in Iraq?
732718
Iraq is not another Vietnam.
444663
Well you see... there were vietnamese people... and we killed a lot of them.  Then they killed a lot of us.  Much like iraq, we should have just turned their country into a charred black rock in east asia.  i mean, after all... the winners of the wars are the ones who write the history books.
883064
My personal belief unfortunately will be the same as Vietnam...after spending vast amounts of money and human lives we may end up withdrawing.\n\nThe true outcome is determined by the citizens of the US .Will the citizens continue to support a war that has proven to be costly both in economic and casualty aspects? \n\nIt will take more than military force to establish peace in the Middle East.The divisions among the Shites and Sunnis go back many decades and peace must be worked out among these to groups themselves.\n\nThese groups will continue to live in the area long after the Coalitation Forces have returned home.
106646
We will come home from Iraq when the Iraqis are ready to take control of their own country and will not slip back into the way things used to be.  Anyone who thinks that as soon as a democrat becomes president, they will just end our efforts in Iraq is very mistaken.  So you people think that after the progress that we have made, we should just pull out now without completing the job?  Anyone ever heard of Vietnam?  The one war we weren't completely committed to?  And how does it compare with the other wars that we have been in and did the right way?  Which war do we look back on now with the most regret?  Vietnam, because we went in half-assed and lost thousands of soldiers for nothing.  Compare that with WW2 where we lost many more soldiers, but finished the job.
662215
At some time maybe. \n\nThe Vietnam and World War II Vets had to pay for their own, so Iraqi vets better start saving.\n\nI don't blame the Vets for Bush's war. I hope no one else does uither, though I would hope they would stop murdering people. Dear Marines, our image is bad enough, we don't need anymore military to go around killing 3 year old kids.
193571
Iraq is slowly but surely turning into a self governing democracy that will in the near future be capable of defending itself and participating and working with nations worldwide economically and as an ally in the war against terror. the Iraqi people will be free to pursue the freedoms that we here in America have long taken for granted.Iraq does indeed have a bright future ahead and because they do our future here is America is brighter as well.~
695148
It already has. \n\nBush keeps talking about achieving victory, but the sad fact of life is that there is no way to win in this situation. The best we can hope for is containment of the sectarian violence.\n\nI certainly hope this country treats the Iraq vets better than they did the Vietnam vets....
721087
Vietnam had effectively been turned into two countries, like North and South Korea.  The war was North Vietnam seeking to conquer the South and reunite the country by force.  The fighting in Iraq is nothing like that.  In Iraq, a few terrorists and religious zealots are trying to prevent Iraq from becoming a democracy.  They are funded and supplied from the surrounding countries (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia), but no other country is trying to conquer Iraq.\n\nIn Vietnam, we were actually fighting another country, North Vietnam.  That is not true in Iraq.\n\nAlthough it was an integral part of the Cold War, the Vietnam War was an actual war unto itself.  The fighting in Iraq is a part of the War on Terror (stupid name, it should be the War on Islamofascism) but is not really a war by itself.  At least not any more.  Iraq fell within three weeks of our invasion.  The currant Iraqi government is our ally.  The fighting is the US-led coalition and Iraq against the terrorists.\n\nUS fatalities in Vietnam were at about 10 times the rate of fatalities in Iraq.  As wars go, the US fatalities in Vietnam were quite low; US fatalities in Iraq are minuscule.\n\nIts not quite true to say there was no coalition in Vietnam.  The South Vietnamese and the Aussies fought there with us, as did the South Koreans.  The French, of course, bugged out.\n\nThe US force in Iraq hovers between 120,000 and 150,000; the force in Vietnam peaked at over 500,000.\n\nDemocrats supported the war in Vietnam while there was a Democratic President, and turned against it when a Republican was elected.  We will see if their principles are just as flexible now if a Democrat wins in 2008.
866534
Let me see...Viet Cong blending into villages and disappearing into tunnel systems...Insurgents blending into villages and having underground caches of munitions...Is there any difference?\n\nOur brave soldiers out patrolling crowds where the insurgents look just like the citizens...that sounds awfully familiar.\n\nBush and Rumsfeld have really mucked this one up.  Then, consider the cost of prosecuting this bungled mess.  The deficit is rising and Bush stubbornly insists on maintaining tax cuts.  The next Prez is going to have to raise taxes to pay it off and be branded the one who "lost the war".  \n\nIn case noone remembers, Eisenhower was the first to send troops into Nam.
48456
Of course, if they want to have a Vietnam-like experience they can attack Iran.\nThese countries are not comparable, Kuwait is as small as capital of Iran and Iraq was at its worst point of military power when US attacked them, years of sorounding had made them so weak that even 1 Iraqi aircraft didn't do any mission.\nAlso it must be noted that US troops only captured deserts of Iraq and its mountains were attacked by Turkey which had long time problems with natives there.\nThe last time that US troops try to attack Iran on 25th April 1980 they so hurrily left Iran that Iran government sent them the  body of boys.\nIt is funny; neither Iranian was aware of operation nor they shoot a bullet only Iran sand defeated USA.