Does anyone see any similarities between Iraq, Vietnam and Korea?

Question

Well here's what i noticed: At the end of world war II we occupied southern Korea, with Russia occupying the North. This set the stage for a civil war or conflict which to this day is unresolved (sure they have a cease fire but it could erupt at any moment) Compare this situation with Iraq.... we go in and occupy that country and surprise surprise we've divided that country too and they are on the verge of a civil war, if not plunged into it already. Ok so now on to Vietnam.... well we weren't wanted there, we weren't needed there, many of our soldiers and vietnamese died and in the end it was a HUGE MISTAKE. Sounds just like present day Iraq to me. So when will we learn to keep our country out of other countries affairs??The more we claim to "Help" the more people die and the more conflict we cause and unfortunately i don't think we'll learn our lesson until after our country is wiped from the earth..... Liberals will probaly agree and conservatives might not, OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!

I'd just like to note: 1) the dude who answered the question first has responded with his "list" to every question asked about Iraq.... are you that un-original? and 2) to the 2nd person to answer this question.....If my history of Korea and Vietnam is so "Off" why don't you fill me in to your history of those wars.. thank you

Answer 1

this is old stuff, liberals have been trying to play this one for years.

Answer 2

The similarities are merely interior the political realm. The battles are distinctive. We fought a philosophy in Vietnam. The gamers have been communist. I undergo in strategies gamers from Russia, Cuba, China, Thailand, Laos and others. the only rumor that persists is, the US became defeated in Vietnam--certainly, we in no way misplaced a conflict on the sphere. the sole battles misplaced have been the politicians, the liberals (Hanoi Jane) and the college indoctrinated protesters. the US human beings misplaced the police action in Vietnam. The similarity in the two places is occurring interior the clicking. The liberal "decrease & runs" are protesting the fees, (conflict income), the dying toll (not even a million% of Vietnam), the well-being care (extra useful than Vietnam), the toddler killers (insurgents kill ninety 9.9% of girls human beings and little ones with bombs), Oil conflict (no oil in Vietnam, merely undesirable men). In ultimate, if the politicians might stay out of the" police action" and permit the militia to combat a "conflict", this could be over and we would pass on, yet once you enable the politicians and liberal protesters to win yet another conflict, we can lose 10 fold in all the above stated while the Islam international locations have the bomb. in case you think they gained't use it, I actually have a bridge on the marketplace low-value!!!

Answer 3

All of them are over there... We are over here....
The Primary reason for having a military is to protect our borders. Where I live the Border Patrol is being outgunned by Mexican Drug Gangs.

I have no intrest in Iraq, Muqtada al Sadr can have it. People down here can't go out at night. They found dead illegals on the grounds of the Army Intelligence School

Answer 4

N O!!! Iraq and Afghanistan is against Islamo-
Fascist Al Qaida Terrorism and is the same as Naziism, Vietnam and Korea was the struggle against Communism and the enslavement of
millions of people and we won the war over communism and we will win this war against terrorism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

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It may be my list, but it is still accurate and true and answers your question about Iraq, which was unique from Vietnam and Korea.

You do know that 9/11 triggered pre-emptive warfare in Iraq? that kinda makes it different from Vietnam and Korea.

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The world changed for many -- apparently not you -- after 9/11.

-- Saddam Hussein violated numerous United Nations resolutions following the first Persian Gulf War. Saddam's military continuously shot at U.S. and British planes patrolling the Northern and Southern No-Fly Zones. He offered $25,000 to families of homicide bombers. We know he possessed chemical and biological weapons because he used them during the Iraq/Iran war, and on his own people, the Kurds.

-- The October '02 National Intelligence Estimate concluded with "high confidence" -- the highest certainty allowed -- that Saddam possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. All 16 intelligence agencies contributing to the NIE unanimously agreed on the chemical and biological weapons assumptions, with disagreement only on how far along Saddam was toward acquiring nukes.

-- Weapons inspectors found no WMD stockpiles, leading many Americans to feel that the president either lied or cherry-picked intelligence to lead us into war. But the Robb-Silverman Commission concluded that the president didn't lie. The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee's 511-page report concluded that the president did not lie. The British Butler Commission, which examined whether Prime Minister Tony Blair "sexed up" the intelligence to make a case for war, concluded the PM didn't lie.

-- Kenneth Pollack, an opponent of the Iraq war, served as Iraq expert and intelligence analyst in the Clinton administration. Pollack writes that during his 1999-2001 tour on the National Security Council, " . . . the intelligence community convinced me and the rest of the Clinton Administration that Saddam had reconstituted his WMD programs following the withdrawal of the UN inspectors, in 1998, and was only a matter of years away from having a nuclear weapon. . . . The U.S. intelligence community's belief that Saddam was aggressively pursuing weapons of mass destruction pre-dated Bush's inauguration, and therefore cannot be attributed to political pressure. . . . Other nations' intelligence services were similarly aligned with U.S. views. . . . Germany . . . Israel, Russia, Britain, China, and even France held positions similar to that of the United States. . . . In sum, (SET ITAL) no one (END ITAL) doubted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."

-- Meanwhile, neighboring Iran defiantly pursues nuclear weapons. Bush reasoned that a free, democratic and prosperous Iraq would destabilize Iran, accomplishing regime change without military force. This would encourage the rest of the Arab world to direct their grievances toward their own leaders, rather than against the "infidels."

-- We remain in Iraq because, as former Secretary of State James Baker put it, "[I]f we picked up and left right now . . . you would see the biggest civil war you've ever seen. Every neighboring country would be involved in there, doing its own thing, Turkey, Iran, Syria, you name it, and even our friends in the Gulf."

-- Former Secretary of State and informal Bush adviser Henry Kissinger -- who knows something about the consequences of cutting and running -- wrote, "Victory over the insurgency is the only meaningful exit strategy."

-- The political aim of our Islamofascist enemies is a worldwide Caliphate, or Islamic world. Renowned Islam expert Bernard Lewis recently reiterated his support for the war: "The response to 9/11 came as a nasty surprise [to bin Laden and his followers]. They were expecting more of the same -- bleating and apologies -- instead of which they got a vigorous reaction, first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. And as they used to say in Moscow: It is no accident, comrades, that there has been no successful attack in the United States since then. . . . [T]he effort is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us."

True, 2,800 of our best have died. Any figure above zero is a tragedy. But America -- on both sides of the Civil War -- lost more than 600,000 soldiers, or 2 percent of the country's population of 31 million. Of our country's 132 million, we lost more than 400,000 in World War II, or .3 percent of our population. In the Korean War, we lost 37,000, and the Vietnam War saw 58,000 dead.

Many people say that after failing to find stockpiles of WMD, Bush "switched" rationale for the war. Consider this excerpt from a New York Times editorial about a speech Bush gave weeks before the coalition entered Iraq:

"President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead of focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, or reducing the threat of terror to the United States, Mr. Bush talked about establishing a 'free and peaceful Iraq' that would serve as a 'dramatic and inspiring example' to the entire Arab and Muslim world, provide a stabilizing influence in the Middle East and even help end the Arab-Israeli conflict."

Still confused? Please write back, and I'll try again.

Answer 6

Open you eyes and read a history book.

Your Korean War knowledge is very very very far off.

AND your vietnam history.