Why are we in Iraq after we lost Vietnam?

Question

Source: Lost Vietnam 30th April 75. Didn't the USA ( Government ) learn any kind of a lesson?

Answer 1

If we look at history, especially on Vietnam, we lost the war at home regardless of what was going on overseas. Endless debate and a mass amounts of anti-war legislation were the pinnacle of the downfall of the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, Iraq will probably the same way.

United we rock, divided we couldn't beat a three year old with a stick.

Answer 2

1. To those people who sit there and complain thaqt our "Esteemed leaders dont have to go to Iraq", the governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford-R, is in the SC National Guard and has been deployed to Iraq already. So anybody who says that is just an idiot especially when I have heard of absolutely ZERO Democrats having been to Iraq in the capacity of a servicemember.

2. We didn't lose a war since it was never a declared war...it was called a war by its detractors in order to maximize the effect of their propaganda against the war. The real term for their "war" is actually a conflict.

3. Even though we did pull out of Vietnam, the situation is different. The enemy is a different one than we faced in Vietnam...though the circumstances are similar. Even though we dont like to think of it...this time, the enemy is not only three thousand miles away...the enemy may be just next door plotting new and more effective ways of killing you and everyone you know. That is the threat we all face, and what our servicemen and women are fighting against. The lessons are the old ones and entirely new ones altogether. What we make of them is what defines who we will become. Will we shrink back in cowardice, giving the terrorists the backbone and a reason to create another 9/11 or worse, or will we make the harder choice and stay out on the front lines? Nonetheless they will not merely be guarding the rights we enjoy anymore...but the right to live on our own soil. Had your life been directly threatened in your own home at gunpoint and your only choice to keep yourself alive was to use the pistol in your hand, would you say im sorry and cast the pistol away...or shoot the intruder to protect yourself and your family? That is the choice now thrust upon us, that is the choice we must make as a nation...and either way be prepared to reap the consequences of it. Can you know say that we should withdraw from the front lines and invite more attacks? And if we do withdraw...how many more attacks...how many more lives lost...how many more acts of travesty must be done to this nation to wake us up and tell us that we must unite and detroy this faction that would seek to destroy us, or be destroyed ourselves?

Answer 3

What makes you imagine it truly is unlawful? I particularly have served my u . s . for over 18 years as a US military Ranger and a first Sergeant of a Armored organization, been wounded 4 cases and had 3 excursions of responsibility in Iraq, jointly with barren area hurricane. If ignore, the President is the Commander IN chief. He can placed the protection stress the position he needs without Congress' aproval. If Iraq is unlawful, so became Nam the position you've been. i visit't have self belief that you imagine the U. S. will lose. Our protection stress now could be a police stress now. the individuals of Iraq desire us there. i became there the first time in 1991 even as the UN stopped us. It wasn't Bush seniror who stopped us. also the marvelous mendacity bill Clinton is to blame for a lot of it, jointly with the conflict On Terror. He had 2 possibilities in 1993 after the global commerce middle became bombed and again in 1997 even as the united statesCole became rather a lot blown aside. HE DID no longer something. He had concrete evidence of the position OSama Bin encumbered became and DID no longer something. The conflict isn't unlawful by technique of no ability and that i visit't have self belief a former soldier feels that way. I recognize you as a veteran of Nam, yet i will not recognize your opinion of what's truly occurring. also, the President isn't to blame for the oil expenditures. He can't administration retail expenditures. the authorities became depending on the loose organization equipment of earning earnings and businesses will make income spite of how a lot it hurts everday human beings.

Answer 4

The one thing I learned was that Liberals ( JFK started the war) and their sheepish followers are what lost the war. Due to mass protests, by Draft dodgers ( Bill Clinton), Entertainers (Hanoi Jane Fonda) the support need was lost. That is why we lost VietNam. We won every single battle, but the cowards at home lost the war for us by beating our moral down. Too bad they didn't use the energy for the war effort..we could have won it sooner. We also won the Iraq war...the war was declared over and a victory. This is a mopping up exercise. Kinda messy place and will take some cleaning up before we are done.
Now if we could get the Liberals to learn something....Get a backbone, we might have something better

Answer 5

We are in Iraq because terrorists have been attacking us and other countries for years. Honestly, how long would you let a person run up to you on the street and punch you in the back of the head before you take a swing back? Me...they might get two cheap shots in. Our government isn't perfect and most of us realize that. However they did what they could until so many people were killed in one mass attack that something had to be done. Yes, Iraq isn't an easy or pretty war, but war isn't pretty or neat and clean. It's war, it's bloody, messy, and we loose too many good people no matter what. With that said, do you know that because of this war people are building schools for these kids to go to, reconstructing water and sewage which benefits the entire neighborhoods, teaching them to protect themselves against diseases, clearing land mines laid by their own terrorist countrymen, working with Iraqi officials to arrest high ranking officials involved in terrorism, and so much more. This war has been long so far, and I've had multiple family members and others i care for go there, and thankfully come back. So many good things are coming from this though, and I can't see anyone spitting on these soldiers when they return home. If they are foolish enough to, then they don't deserve what these men and women bleed for and give to them.

Answer 6

Because our esteemed leaders, who were of military age during Vietnam, chose to evade the draft instead. Therefore, they have NO idea what warfare is really like. They don't care either, since they don't personally have to go - they just get to inflict it on other people.

I think Bush and Cheney should be in Iraq right now, if they think it's such a great idea. George Washington was at Valley Forge.

Answer 7

We never "lost" Vietnam. Read a book.
We also won the war in Iraq, very easily. We are not fighting Iraq now, but rather terrorists, non-Iraqis and secterian murderers. Big difference. Comparing Vietnam (FYI, started by JFK, a liberal)
to Iraq is silly.

Answer 8

we did not lose in vietnam,get some facts not one battle was lost.guess you was sleeping on sept. 11 2001,we had a terriost attack here in the good ol USA,3000 lives lost,what planet did you visit lately goredonia??

Answer 9

We're there because those who put us there didn't learn anything from history.

If you don't learn any lessons from history, you will repeat the mistakes.

Answer 10

It's a diffent game my friend. It's part of the GWOT. Do you want terrorists here in the streets?