The similarities of the Vietnam War and the Iraq War?

Question

Not in numbers of casualties or actions. But in the misrepresentations of the media and the hair pulling, foot stomping antics of the left.
Does anybody know much about the myths of Vietnam? One was that more blacks died in Vietnam than whites. Very false. Or that it was fought by the poor and uneducated. False again.
Read here.
http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html

Is it just me or are the similarities almost frightening in how the socialist left are doing the same thing in regards to Iraq as they did during the Vietnam War. Will America EVER learn that these wacko's not only can't, but won't get their facts straight because it doesn't serve their main agenda, POWER!

Please read the entire linked site. It was very informative. I know I learned some other things I didn't know.

Answer 1

The left is indeed harkening back to Vietnam. You can hardly blame them, Vietnam was a great victory for them, and the impulse to re-live past glory is strong in any movement.

Answer 2

"I think the human race needs to think more about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good? We saw Vietnam as an element of the cold war–not what they saw it as– a civil war. We were wrong. We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should *ever* apply that military, economic, or political power unilaterally." -- Robert MacNamara

Answer 3

I'd say a lot of it has to do with the amount of hours watching television killing the collective people's attention span. If a military skirmish goes on for more than a year, people immediately start shouting "quagmire!", or "we've been there too long!", etc.

Answer 4

You conveniently forgot the stupid right-wingers who got the USA involved in both wars. In both cases the reasons for participating where false. The opposition was seriously under estimated, a limited war from the USA's point of view was fought against a people who practiced total war.

How many times must you get your a** kick before you quite interfering in other peoples internal affairs because of POWER hunger?

Answer 5

Similarities?
No good evidence.

Iraqi war begin because Bush claims that Sadam has weapons of mass destruction and he is connected to Bin Laden but no good evidence was shown.

Vietnam war begun because of an incident (I forgot the name), They claimed it was the N. Vietnamese who attacked the shps but no good evidence was shown.

Answer 6

In many ways yes the only difference is the Iraqi governments are with USA