2006-12-13 09:09:07 · 12 answers · asked by Billy 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
opposition by the media and the libs.
Other than that, no comparison.
Vietnam - commies, Iraq - Islamofascists
Vietnam - soviet interference (superpower), Iraq - Iranian Interference (suicide bombers and 10th century mentality)
Vietnam - jungle warfare, Iraq - urban and desert warfare
Vietnam - not fighting as a result of a domestic attack, Iraq, yes we were attacked by islamofascists on 9/11 and that is who we are fighting in Iraq.
2006-12-13 09:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by boonietech 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Both of these countries are/were factionalized. Both have/had groups of insurgents that do not care about their own lives or their own people. Both are fighting the USA and believe that they are correct in what they are fighting for. Our Democratic Party and the NEWS MEDIA, in BOTH CASES, want to end the fighting now that lives have been lost without even a chance of succeeding in stopping the insurgents. I am sure that there are other similarities but I have lost all thinking on this topic at this time. (By the way, I am a Registered Democrat taht takes both sides according to what the question is.) Have a great weekend and a wonderful holiday!
Eds
2006-12-13 09:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by Eds 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US lost thousands of soldiers, brutally murdered 10s of thousands of innocent people and LOST both wars.
Interestingly both of the "enemies" were hideously poor people that were very poorly armed against the wealth and miltary might of the US. America just doesnt learn does it.
Of course one major dissimilarity (if thats a word) is that vietnam didnt create 100s of thousands of potential terrorists seeking vengance and the american people didnt get robbed of their freedoms and rights.
2006-12-13 10:35:42 · answer #3 · answered by Old Cynic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
THE POLITICANS ARE RUNNING THE WAR AND CALLING ALL THE SHOTS. JUST EXACTLY THE WAY THEY DID IN THE VIETNAM WAR. EVERYONE KNOWS HOW THAT ENDED. LET THE MILITARY DO THE JOB THEY KNOW BEST AND THE WAR WILL BE WON THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
2006-12-13 11:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by richard b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They aren't, billy, and the simple fact that you've asked the question tells me that you are too young to even remember the Vietnam war assuming, of course, that you were even born at that time.
2006-12-13 09:19:37 · answer #5 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think of the wars are similiar because of the fact... a million. the two place self assurance in the "domino concept" In Vietnam, the US argued that if one united states grew to grow to be communist than the subsequent united states might fall like dominos and grow to be communist to. Vietnam grew to become into the place we would end them. In Iraq, the Bush administration argued that shall we start up a domino concept and if shall we make Iraq a democracy, then all the worldwide places around it would grow to be democracies. 2. The get entry to with the help of US forces in the two wars have been predicated on lies. The Johnson administration reported the Gulf of Tonkin incident which grew to become into later proved to be erroneous and a lie with the help of the administration to get Congress to authorize the conflict. interior the comparable way, the Bush administration used fake intelligence and lies approximately WMDs, nuclear bombs, yellow cake uranium, hyperlinks to al Queda, and different nationalistic propaganda to distort the reality and benefit Congressional help. 3. as quickly as the conflict grew to become badly in Vietnam, the US tried to go out in the time of the "vietnamization" of the conflict. actually, education the Vietnam armed forces to combat rather of the US trops. Now, in Iraq, they are attempting to coach the Iraqi military or police to take the placement of the US troops. they have been speaking approximately hundreds of hundreds of troops and police they have knowledgeable and outfitted education academies in Iraq for billions of greenbacks, yet nevertheless have not something to coach for their attempt. As on your "blood for oil" slogan, i don't think of that we went to Iraq for get entry to to grease. i think of we went to Iraq because of the fact human beings like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and so on that have been interior the 1st Bush administration have been nevertheless protecting a grudge because of the fact they weren't allowed to get Saddam the 1st time and the fall down of the international commerce middle gave them an impressive excuse in charge Saddam.
2016-10-14 21:27:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are very similar. In Vietnam we went in to stop and change their countries fighting. We tried to fight communism. We stayed for so long trying to "help" their country. We had to leave their country hanging onto helicopeters. In Iraq we went in to try and change their countries government just like Vietnam. We didn't really ask them if they wanted our help. We're just repeating what was going on in Vietnam. Just repeating history.
2006-12-13 09:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by kayleigh jane 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Both involved America?
2006-12-13 09:12:44 · answer #8 · answered by bwfc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
both of them are excuses for American Weapon factories to sell more amo, guns, etc. & both have involve political ineterest.
2006-12-13 09:24:30 · answer #9 · answered by chato 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
US citizens are getting killed for no benefit to the USA
2006-12-13 09:23:55 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋