I believe  we will lose in Iraq. It will be like Vietnam all over again. Agree?
494184
We will lose the war. ( How many Iraqi people did 9-11?) This is the truth. Shot and killed one day. News for one day. Buried in 4 days. Forgotten forever. Troops!! You are dying for nothing.
1008329
Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong here - but I think one of the major differences is that the Iraqi people ARE indeed willing to change their way of life, adopting democracy, whereas the Vietnamese actually wanted to keep their communist government in tact so there was no will on their part to change. That's why we lost then. I mean, going back to the basics, in order for things to change, the will must come from both parties, otherwise it'll just be communist and dictatorship all over again. If we come in Iraq forcing our democratic ways on them, that wouldn't make us any different from Hitler. I think the Iraqis are actually willing to adjust.
1018754
Badly, very badly.\n\nAll three sides, the Sunnis, Kurds and Shi'ites will fight like dogs, and eventually the United States will not be able to stop it. Those Iraqi troops we trained will also come back to haunt us too. This is a bad situation, and all the weapons in the US arsenal will not be able to solve it.\n\nOn the upside, I think it would have happened one way or the other, contrary to liberal public opinion....sad situation, time for us to leave!
941603
Yes I think we will, We are now in the breach of WW3, for all those who don't believe me. Believe me its true, I am in Iraq right now, all this is is the beginning of World War 3 and we can't even see it with our own eyes. Africa is starting to heat up, North Korea shooting missiles, Iran shooting missiles, Syria wanting to over run Iraq why we are in here. This is all on the breach of another major war. And we Americans don't have enough troop to handle it compared to all the other countries millions of millions of troops that are belonging to their army. Thats why I think we need more troops to sign up. Just my opinion, nothing serious.
914089
If WW2 or Korean war was taken place today we would have lost both no doubt it with our current media, we lost thousands of men each day in WW2  36,000 in Korea we are averaging 2 casualty a day in Iraq (4 yrs divided by 3000) and our media says "it is a disaster we can't win it", that does not bode well for future conflict with the media we have now. America might be approaching a point where we are afraid to defend anyone unless we are violently attack first. History will  eventually show that the constant negativism by our media have affected our will to meet these challenges. Vietnam is a good example we did not lose that war through a superior enemy, but years of negative news bias took it's toll.
918289
I think that the war in Iraq is a war that cannot be won just like the war on terror, sure we can do things to help the cause but the actual war/wars are not going to be won. I just cant believe how many people still think that we can win this war. I don't know if it is worse than Vietnam, we lost over 50,000 people there but the long term ramifications of this war cannot be measured.
1110700
No-one will win or lose, just like no-one is winning or losing in Afghanistan or Iraq. Some americans will believe that they would have won because they killed another hundred thousand people. They will convince themselves of that and blame the liberals and the liberal media when the world turns against them. Just like some of them still think that they actually won in Vietnam, really they did, but the hippies made them lose it all.  Just see the comment above and you'll know the mindset.
381204
What do you think? America will still be America, and Bush will be out of Power; hallelujah! Oh, and Halliburton won't be running (ruining) the war in Iraq. You wonder why we are winning?
708137
I'd say a Pyyhric victory is still possible, but only if we can muster enough troops and descend on Iraq in sufficient force to close and control the borders,then clean it up from the inside out.  We need to acknowledge to our allies that we really messed up, and ask for help.  They may not give it, but we need to try.  Walking away and leaving such a monumental disaster of our making is utterly dishonorable.  Bush and his supporters made a terrible mistake, and it's much too late to do anything about that, but we should not simply throw up our hands and leave Iraq to its fate.
771577
Yes, our military involvement in Iraq will end, whether it's called a war, police action, or whatnot. At the very least, a president -- likely not the current one -- will simply declare victory, or mission accomplished, and then pull the troops out. Very much like what occurred in Vietnam. But if we settle for this sort of "victory," we may well face dire consequences as a result. \n\nI certainly hope we are able to bring our troops home after they have truly accomplished their mission. Are they very far away from doing that? From the news reports it certainly seems a distant thing.
896611
THANK YOU!\ni hated the people in my history class last year that refused to believe that, and that history was pointless! you're so right about the fact that iraq is a completely the same as vietnam!
907938
Not as usual .....We lost the Iraq war thats clear......we didn't have stomache for it from the start.  The US is not what she was during WW2......
171943
the future for iraq, judging from the size of the bases that have been built by the US, and the money being sunk into the place by both private and public entities (much of which, of course, is being stolen by greedy american contractors), is as an embattled base for corporations that wish to access the oil there. \n\nthe people will be caught in the middle of a growing insurgency (drawing fighters from all over the Middle East, who will rightly see this as an infraction of sovereignty) and the big money of US-backed interests who will hang on (even after the troops go, there will be private contractors as long as there is money to pay them or the interest in being there). \n\nif we're lucky (and i do mean all of us), Iraq will not be the central battlefield of WWIII. but i'm not optimistic.
1123470
No.  we can't just pull out of Iraq before its own government is stable.  Then it would be another Vietnam.  If we just pick up and leave, the country will turn into a police state, much like Somalia did during the Clinton administration.
632902
I think it will be like Vietnam where the US won militarily in terms of the number of enemy troops/insurgents that were killed(US lost 58,000 soldiers, Viet Cong lost over 1.5 million) but did not acheive its goal to stop the communist takeover of Vietnam. The US will no doubt kill dozens of insurgents for every soldier it loses in Iraq but public opinion in the States will eventually lead to troop withdrawal and the insurgents may overthrow the undefended and overwhelmed democratic government and install a theocracy like Iran
890379
Iraq was not like it is now when Saddam was in power. Saddam was a threat to his own people, and those around him, period. World threat? Threat to America? Not by any thinking person's stretch of the imagination. We had to retaliate for 9/11 and a group of brilliant people decided Iraq was the path of least resistance after we topple their tyrant to install a democracy. Wishful thinking at its best, we are starting to see the worst. Things have degraded to their tribal levels split along religious sects. We invaded without understanding the culture and history of the region. Hatred and war are long time bed-partners in the middle-east. Just to keep the excitement growing we can now add extremely twisted, hate filled, religious fundamentalist zealots adding to the killing in the name of Allah.  Baghdad is eerily starting to look like Saigon. We won't need a strategy to get out, we'll need emergency evacuation.
830146
The economy will start to go backwards. Wall street hates higer taxes and excessive regulations. That is what the Democrats have already comitted to do.  People hate the war. Unless there is radical change in the Iraq situation for the better, and it gets reported by the mainstream media, the Democrats will take both the presidency and the senate  and gain in the house in 2008.\n\nThe swing voters are only voting on one issue - Iraq. The economy and employment are great. The democrats didn't try to attack on any other issue than Iraq. It was a good strategy to win.\n\n I just feel really bad for what is goign to happen to the poor Iraqui people when the Dems force a pullout. I hope it is not like Cambodia where 1.5 to 3 million were slaughtered when we left Vietnam. It will be so sad if this happens, but people won't even pay attention.\n\nThe world economy will take a hit as well.