Do you think the War in Iraq is going to be another Vietnam?

Question

why and why not ?

Answer 1

Are you suggesting that the Chinese will become involved?
That there is a North and South Iraq? What?

Answer 2

We are winning
1. Hanoi was never occupied
2. Giap and Ho Chi Minh remained in place
3 Vietnameese Army was better armed and more numerous
4.The left had a monopoly on the Media which was infiltrated by Communist party members. Times station chief in Saigon was a Colonel in the NVA.
5. The Soviet Union and China aided Vietnam
6. MacNamarra did not believe in his War
7. No Democracy in the South
8. The War was lost in America thanks to the Liberals
9. 2 to 4 Million Cambodians were wiped off the earth because of Liberals supporting Communists

Iraq
1. Baghdad is dictator free
2 prominent terrorists are room temperature
3. The population supports the Americans
4. Rumsfeld Believes
5. There is a viable right wing press
6. The people have voted for a democracy
7 ratified a constitution
8. The Soviet Union does not exist.
9. China has stayed away
10 The War is being won in America in Spite of Liberals.
11. There is a Valid reason to be in Iraq. None for Vietnam
500 WMD shells which violated the ceasefire agreement of 1991
links to terrorists. Liberals have been dreaming for an evacuation like Saigon in 1975. NOT THIS TIME NOT THIS WAR.

Answer 3

We already have 14 permanent military bases constructed so it seems Bush intends to keep troops in Iraq for a long time. However, Iraq is different to Vietnam in that the war in Vietnam was over the spread of Communism and consequently allies to the Soviets (to my knowledge) and the war in Iraq is mostly over money and resources. Therefore, it seems that it's in the Iraqis best interest to throw the U.S. out, as their resources are being taken.

I hope and predict that Iraq won't be another Vietnam because the pressure to evacuate has been mounting for a while and the international community openly opposes the war. The U.S. can only fend off criticism and opposition from within and internationally for so long before it's forced to withdraw troops.

Answer 4

It will not be another vietnam. In vietnam we never won the war. War with Iraq is already won, and we will be ultimately defeated there, not anytime soon. I don't think any super power in the past has ever really control middle east, British empire or USSR. We will not be the one who can break the barrier to Middle-East. We ain't that good yet, not in a world where there is nuclear weapon.

Answer 5

Ladies & Gentlmen. It already is and its going to be a whole lot worse than Vietnam. Its going to continue for decades? The cost in lives to foreign armies serving there will far exceed the casulty figure of Vietnam. It's not Vietnam, its totally unrelated to Vietnam, in no way whatsoever does it compare to Vietnam. This is a war for keeps. Its the Muslims war. It'll just go on and on and on! No amount of assassination, murder, torture as daily and indiscriminatly applied against arab or foreign nationals by the extreme elements of Islam - will ever be curtailed as long as one foreign foot walks its land or anyone arab stands forth to challenge the clericks. The western world is totally out of balance in measuring up to the reality of Iraq.

It's Islam. Western morels, standards, values, practices, culturs and countless other aspects of life are totally alien to its society. Forbidden and unknown to its people and made all the more alien by the ongoing teachings of its unelected muslim clericks to hate all non muslims and their ways.

Answer 6

Nope. During Vietnam the people running the war in Washington were known as the "Wiz Kids." They were a group of government officals who thought they could win a war just by numbers. This war is all about people and their well being not body counts which was the case in Nam.

Answer 7

no...vietnam was a totally different situation. the war was won, saddam is gone, his army defeated. now is a reconstruction phase. we have restored much of the infrastructure. we are now fighting insurgents as the iraqi govt gets established and it's own forces grow to the point where they can take over completely. We don't have to kill all the bad guys to win.

Answer 8

There wouldn't have been a "War in Iraq" if we could have napalmed the desert 16 years ago when the "Gulf War" started.

Answer 9

yes cause civilians are calling the shots in this war like they did in Vietnam

Answer 10

yes i do and i think it already has become just that another vietnam a useless war no one is getting any help and amlot of our young men r dying for what nothng