2007-02-10 14:55:39 · 9 answers · asked by gigiani 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
No. There is a historical difference between the Vietnam and Iraqi wars. Media tries to bridge the gap because recycling old stories sells advertising. See for yourself.
Another Vietnam?
http://realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/01/another_vietnam.html
The Vietnam history you haven't heard
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0122/p09s01-coop.html
Breaking the Hold of Hegemonist Doctrine
http://realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/01/breaking_the_hold_of_hegemonis.html
2007-02-10 20:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Em E 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What about the children in Iraq that depend on us for medicine? What will they do when we pull out before their struggling government is able to take care of them?
If the UN figures are valid, then in the three years since we have been there, the vaccines and medicine we have given out have saved the lives of more than 180,000 children. Put a price tag on that. Tell me that is not worth it.
A guy at the hospital here is in the reserves. He's a medic. He's been there twice and is going back a third time. The whole time he's there he's part of a crew of four. They load up their ambulance with supplies to last a week. They live out of the ambulance and sleep under it. They go around the countryside giving vaccines to the children and medicine to anyone who needs it.
I look at the UN web site a lot. Before the war I kept seeing on the UN web site and the UNICEF web site that 5,000 children were dying every month in Iraq. I would cry because I knew that humanitarian aid money was being provided, but it wasn't getting to the children. Then after the war started I saw on the news that soldiers had found huge stockpiles of cash in the palace walls. When they showed that cash I cried again because I knew that he had stolen that money from the children. All I could see was the medicine and vaccines that money was supposed to buy. For the eleven years since the first gulf war until our soldiers started handing out vaccines and medicine 5,000 children a month were dying. That sorry piece of humanity was responsible for more than 500,000 children dying because of his greed.
That investigation that Congress did said that he also diverted huge amounts of money that was supposed to be for food. He would launder the money through contractors in Europe that were supposed to supply food and medicine. They gave him the cash and he gave them oil futures that they sold for huge profits. What a shame.
2007-02-10 23:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Dogz 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It sure looks that way. We should have learned a lesson from Viet Nam about unnecessary wars.
2007-02-10 23:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by notyou311 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No - It is just a case or trying to fight a police action with troops instead of police.
2007-02-10 23:02:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't look good when we are loosing and no end in site.Fighting insurgents and a civil war.
2007-02-10 23:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by thresher 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, and I have been saying so from day one.
2007-02-11 22:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes but with terrorists
Vietnam=Communists
Iraq=Terrorists
2007-02-10 22:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It already is
2007-02-11 01:01:40 · answer #8 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it certainly seems like it.
2007-02-10 23:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by Special K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋