2006-09-14 11:02:33 · 11 answers · asked by Dave 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
when the time comes Why, are you wanting the terrorist to come and play with you, or would you rather fight them over there (not that any damnocrat would fight for his country, except for traitor kerry and treasonous murtha!!!)
2006-09-14 11:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Different country, different situation, different stuff, different party...all different, no same.
There's a million things wrong with your premise, but let's start with these:
1) We never achieved an initial military victory in Vietnam. We pulled the plug having never taken control of the country and dismantled all their infrastructure. We just walked out in the middle of the game. In Iraq, we've bought the whole bag of bricks because we started it and ended it and now can't walk away from our own mess.
2) Vietnam has (or had) no real strategic or economic value to the US. Oil, proximity to Israel and Iran and the rest of the Gulf make Iraq much different.
3) We were as much fighting the Chinese and Russians as the Vietnemese in Vietnam. We have no luxury of saying we were fighting a "superpower" in Iraq. The guys hiding in the sand pit are kicking our a$$.
4) As was said, Johnson (or Kennedy, if you prefer, since he sent the first military "advisors" in) were both Dems. Though it's been persuasively argued that Eisenhower and the French really "started" it well before...
2006-09-14 18:19:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mark M 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You obviously have not attented your US History class lately. JFK and LBJ were the respective President's during the early years of the war in Vietnam and both were Democrats. The war actually started while the French still had a presence in Southeast Asia. Vietnam could easily have been won militarily however some PC, lib-socialists did not allow the military to do what they were trained and capable of doing. Iraq also can be won if the PC police and lib-socialists let the military do what they're capable of. Read your history.
2006-09-14 18:12:57 · answer #3 · answered by TexMan98 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'll be the first to say it was a bad idea to go in...but you can't turn a country upside-down and then just LEAVE. I think its an issue of responsibility now. We've uprooted a country and left it without a government...you should at least help them back on their feet before you withdraw.
But it was a VERY bad, and deceitful idea to invade.
By the way, Kennedy...a Democrat, started Vietnam. Johnson just escalated it (did I get all that right? My history's fuzzy)
2006-09-14 18:07:33 · answer #4 · answered by DougDoug_ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a liberal question......
Iraq is not Vietnam (unless we cave in and run with our tails between our legs and abandon our military) . We have many family members who were in Vietnam and it is shameful how they were treated.
Still remember disgrace and shame they
faced on coming home to a country that hated them and called them baby killers.
Liberal peaceniks wrecked and ruined a lot of good men and women years ago and they are at it again.
2006-09-14 18:14:20 · answer #5 · answered by Akkita 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Different stuff. We have been paying the price of the Vietnam withdrawal for decades. The price of a premature withdrawal from Iraq could be far worse.
2006-09-14 18:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Um...who started the Vietnam war again? And which President was it who didn't run for reelection because of how badly he mismanaged it? Were they both Democrats, or did my history book lie to me?
2006-09-14 18:07:11 · answer #7 · answered by Chris S 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was a Republican who pulled us OUT of Viet Nam. It was a DEMOCRAT who got us involved in the first place. It was due to us pulling out that crippled our military, rendering them unable to deal with the terrorists attacks that began 1979.
And people want a repeat performance? Are they out of their F***ING MINDS?!
2006-09-14 18:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pull the plug...not soon enough.
Remember Vietnam.......Dad was in it.
Different Rebulican.....Vietnam was started by Johnson....a Democrat.
2006-09-14 18:05:32 · answer #9 · answered by Judy the Wench 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, exactly the same. I mean, how can our troops keep their feet dry with all of that walking through rice paddies? And man, ain't it a ***** clearing all that jungle when you are marching in Baghdad?
2006-09-14 18:06:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Viet Nam was LBJ's war and he was a liberal Dem. We were there until Brother Nixon a liberal Republican withdrew our forces.
2006-09-14 18:07:55 · answer #11 · answered by ?Bob?NYC? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋