The War in Vietnam was a bad idea. Does that mean that all wars are a bad idea?
In thinking about the war in Iraq I was prompted to reflect on the Vietnam War and the differences between the two situations and in particular how the irrational response of many liberals to the Iraq war is largely the result of their now-ingrained or even inherited response to Vietnam.…
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Hey Nalle, GW Bush disagrees:
"Citing America's war experience in Asia, and even Vietnam, President Bush on Wednesday made the case for staying the course in Iraq and reiterated his support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the president compared the war in Iraq to U.S. involvement's in Asia that lost popular backing but which he argued eventually proved its worth and led to lasting peace.
“We are still in the early hours of the current ideological struggle, but we know how the others ended, and that knowledge helps guide our efforts today,” the president said.
Bush even cited Vietnam as a cautionary tale for those urging troop withdrawals today.
"Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left," Bush said. "Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're-education camps' and 'killing fields.'"
- From the msnbc web site
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HONOR THE FALLEN
"Army Sgt. James S. Collins Jr., 35, of Rochester Hills, Mich.; assigned to the 303rd Military Police Company (Combat Support), U.S. Army Reserve, Jackson, Mich.; died Aug. 28 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of wounds sustained during combat operations."
- from the militarycity web site (valor)