Do you think Iraq War will end up like Viet Nam War?

Question

The U. S. will leave the fighting to the Iraqi army and then watch Iraq collapse. Bush is like LBJ and will stick the next president with losing the war. Just a prediction.

Answer 1

Let me see...Viet Cong blending into villages and disappearing into tunnel systems...Insurgents blending into villages and having underground caches of munitions...Is there any difference?

Our brave soldiers out patrolling crowds where the insurgents look just like the citizens...that sounds awfully familiar.

Bush and Rumsfeld have really mucked this one up. Then, consider the cost of prosecuting this bungled mess. The deficit is rising and Bush stubbornly insists on maintaining tax cuts. The next Prez is going to have to raise taxes to pay it off and be branded the one who "lost the war".

In case noone remembers, Eisenhower was the first to send troops into Nam.

Answer 2

It will not turn into another Vietnam. Some of the responses above are comical in their interpretation of history. The walls of liberty must be washed with blood from time to time. This will have to happen in Iraq before they will have a unified government. The main problem with Iraq are the different ethnic groups fighting for control of the country against one another. The country of Iraq was created after world war 2 out of an area that had been the Ottoman Empire. The borders were arbitrary when considering historical ethnicity, sadly these decisions have left us with a country comprised of many ethnic groups which have a long and bloody history of fighting eachother.

No country can solve this problem for the Iraqi's they will have to sort out their own differences. The U.S. goal should be to turn over control to the Iraqi forces in as timely a manner as possible. As their is no "official" foreign power engaging the U.S. troops or Iraqi security forces, comparisons to Vietman are unfounded. Vietnam was a country with a strong tradition of freedom fighting, they had been fighting off Chinese invasion for 1000 years before the french colonized the country. After WW2 a North and South Vietnam was created. China in control in the North, the french in the south. This despite requests by Ho Chi Minh for an independent Vietnam. Truman not wanting to offend our french allies would not support such a decision. End result we sent in military advisors to support the french. The elections in South Vietnam were ignored and a U.S. puppet were put in power. The U.S. presence escalated thru the Kennedy and Johnson years. In vietnam we were fighting a losing battle against what should have been a unified nation back in 1945. Another factor was the state of our military in the 1960's. Most of the U.S. service personnel were draftees serving against their will.

Contrast this with Iraq and you have a full volunteer force fighting what has been reported as mostly non Iraqi insurgents. Most after action reports show that the majority of enemy kills can be verified as Syrian, Iranian, and Saudi citizens. The only similarities between the two conflicts is that the U.S. is involved and that people are dieing.

Answer 3

The similarities between Iraqi and Viet Nam wars are huge. We are stuck in a quagmire instigated by a power hungry president. American troops are dying daily and it is just old news. Just like in Viet Nam, the people making the war are not the people fighting it. We don't even have a clearcut reason why we are there.....it changes daily with the Bush administration. This war was based on lies and misleading the American public with the fear factor that Bush is so good at. WMD.....where??? He created another Viet Nam when he was too good to serve in the last one. Soldiers died and he cheered on as a Yale Frat Boy. What has changed? Now he is just a power hungry little Frat Boy in a position of power he is not qualified for.

Answer 4

Nixon ordered bombing north of the thirty seventh parallel a million twelve months after Johnson stopped it. while it replaced into obvious kicking there butts that way replaced into no longer bringing the N. Vietnamese to the negotiations table he ordered the mining of the North Vietnamese harbor. This further them to the table and the war replaced into over interior 4 months of Ford's administration. investment had surely no longer something to do with the top of the war. He ended a debacle that replaced into escalated via Kennedy then somewhat dropped at complete defense force would via Johnson. yet via the sound of your submit, those activities have been in the previous a while and somebody has misdirected you.

Answer 5

When the US pulled out of Vietnam, the RVN army was well able to hold their own. Within a few months they were invaded by the Commie NVA army and held their own, forcing the NVA to run home with their tails between their legs.

This sure annoyed the Dems. Within a year all military aid to RVN was cut off by a Dem controlled Congress, followed by a withdrawal of air cover from RVN. When the NVA attacked again after regrouping for 2 years, the RVN soldiers had nothing to shoot with, no fuel for their tanks and no bombs for their planes- while the NVA had up to their ears of russian and chinese weapons.
End result- 4 milion murdered people- in "reeducation" camps
Next time you think of Vietnam, say "thank you" to Kerry and Kennedy

Answer 6

no ... iraq is completely under control imo ... im positive that the fighting in iraq is not only planned but instigated ... as an excuse to stay indefinitely and to keep the population from uniting against us ...

Answer 7

North Viet Nam had support from Russia (if I'm correct). The Alkitas (Please correct my spelling) had support from from somebody.

Answer 8

It already is. And everyone seems to have completely forgotten the war we are losing in Afghanistan.

Answer 9

not unless we elect the cowards to office

Answer 10

yes as soon as we pull out the the terrorist will take control again