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Originally posted by Sistermadly
Hopefully people will remember those young men and women who gave their lives in what's shaping up to be the Viet Nam of the 21st century.
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Nope.
Not really.
Not in the same ballpark, not even the same damn sport.
Vietnam started as advisors and escalated into a full-blown guerilla conflict.
Iraq is currently a nation-building mission. Major conflict is over. Guerrilla hit and run tactics are ocurring, but with NOWHERE near the loss of life in Vietnam.
It will take a while to build the nation that is Iraq, Bush wants to turn the government over to the Iraqis next summer, but we will still have troops there. BUT, i highly doubt that 5 years from now we will have 1/100th of the troop presence that we did 5 years into the Vietnam conflict.
Kitso
KS 361 throwaway comments like this we can expect from the Dems
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