11/3 Iraq: Another Vietnam?
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB106782123961984600,00.html
\_ Yes, everything is Vietnam. I can't wait until the hippie/yuppie
generation retires and we can put their drug induced buggaboos
to rest. Don't trust anyone over 30.
\_ Gulf War I, I don't think anyone disagrees about that not
being a Vietnam
\_ Actually before the war, there was alot of Vietnam talk when
people weren't sure if the UN was going to occupy Iraq.
\_ Groan. The Tet offensive misinterpreted again. It was a big
victory for the US forces, but came on the heels of LBJ declaring
the war nearly over and talking possible troop pullback. Instead,
more troops were deployed and the US was stuck for another five
years. Iraq is NOT Vietnam. Somalia is NOT Vietnam. Bosnia is NOT
Vietnam. Grenada, Haiti, Panama ... NOT Vietnam. Damn Boomers.
\_ yea, but it's looking like the type of urban warfare we have
stated right from the start that we would try to avoid at all
cost.
\_ True, but the article refers to telling the "truth" about
Iraq and compares it to "Tet" as if to say "if only the
American public knew the TRUTH, we would have won Vietnam."
Correspondingly, if America knows the TRUTH about Iraq, we
would win. This at a time where the Administration is
refusing to release info on everything from energy policy to
threat memos concerning 9/11. TRUTH is so subjective.
\_ If Americans knew the truth about Iraq we wouldn't be
there.
\_ If Americans knew the truth, we would've done it right
in '91 instead of playing global politic.
\_ The TRUTH is out there.
\_ so's yermom
\_ IFILE!
\_ It does my taxes?
\_ IRS!
\_ Where are they going to put the monument to all the dead American
soldiers? Isn't The Mall getting kind of full???
\_ Maybe they'll stick some Post-It notes with the names on them
on the Vietnam Memorial.
\_ Why should there be? You do know that the KIAs from WWII don't
have a monument of any sort, right? |
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