How did this Iraq war turn into Vietnam?

Question

What a Bush-Cheyney created quagmire.

Answer 1

It didn't.

Vietnam - Tropical jungle covered country in south east Asia.
Iraq - Desert covered country in the middle east.

Vietnam - Communist controlled North invades the democratic south to install Communist control.
Iraq - Dictator controlled country, known to have invaded Iran and Kuwait. US invades to oust dictator

Vietnam - War started by the French and the Communist North.
Iraq - War started by the US and Iraq.

Vietnam - 3000 killed in one month.
Iraq - 3000 killed in 4 years

Vietnam - Established military supplied by China.
Iraq - Insurgent forces supplied by Iran.

So now with these FACTS, please show me how they are alike.

If your going to use a historical reference please use it with people too stupid to understand historical facts. The rest of us know too much for your argument to hold any water at all.

Here is an idea, please create an argument based on facts and not on hatred and bias. You might actually make sense.

Answer 2

Actually, not even close to the same thing. But, the media would have you believe otherwise.

Not the same time, not the same place, not the same subject of the war. All that is even close to similar are that there are casualties. But even these are far from the same:

Vietnam - American involvement 1954 first American casualty thru 1975 (21 years)
58,209 American casualties
153,303 American wounded
1,948 Missing

1,100,000 Vietnamese casualties
300,000 Vietnamese missing

Iraq - 2003 - current (3 years)
3,568 American casualties
26,000 American wounded

Funny how we don't see the total insurgent casualties accurately reported on any news outlet on a regular basis as we do our troops... Daily, hourly in some instances. Why? Cause were kickin insurgent butt... Thats why.

Answer 3

As in Vietnam, we were tricked into believing our world would come to an end if we did not destroy an evil dictator.
We then and now are in a civil war. North vs. South then, Sunni vs. Shiite vs. Kurds now. Now as then we had no exit strategy, likewise we were and are being lied to to cover up the mistake.
Interesting as how the neocons can agree that Iraq is like Vietnam when it suits them and swear there is no comparison when that meets their need.
Don't even believe that the economy is not being hurt by all of this investment in materials that get destroyed and have to be replaced at government expense.

Answer 4

The enemy is transparent and may hide among the native population.

There is no clear exit strategy in place.

The government in place doesn't really want us there; they would rather deal with an enemy they understand than an ally who is foreign.

There is very little popular support for the action outside of military families.

The military action itself has sharply divided the nation.

Military personnel are dying to support an administrative policy, not fighting an actual enemy.

No formal Declaration of War was issued by Congress.

It certainly *feels* like 1973 again. I wonder if the nation will treat these Iraq veterans as badly as they did Vietnam veterans?

Answer 5

The war the US has fought at least since Vietnam is called limited war. We as Americans try to minimize the deaths of civilians at the cost of our own victory.
We do not fight to win and this idea goes across party lines.

Answer 6

Into Vietnam? Have you ever read anything about Vietnam?

Sense when did we lose anywhere close to as many men in Iraq as we did in Nam? Have we killed over a million of the enemy? When did Iraq get the jungles that Nam has?

You have never been in the military so why should I believe ANYTHING you say about it?

Try to get a little education next time and stop regurgitating the BS your liberal masters tell you.

Answer 7

Lisa's right. But it's Guerilla warfare. They're thousands of insurgents and terrorist carrying out suicide bombings and hiding in places were we can't get them because they're hiding by/with civilians. Go to the Military Channel.

www.militarychannel.com

Answer 8

The filthy hippy liberals leapt at the chance to relive their hey day, but the truth is, Saddam is out, we won, and were going through standard adjustment pains. Liberals would love to see the war fail so President Bush will look bad, but they were strangely silent when their messiah got us involved in more military actions than any president in half a century.

Answer 9

America is known for invading countries without any exit strategy and exit plans.

Answer 10

The two are entirely different wars. Nice to know that you are one to regurgitate the Democrap mantra instead of thinking for yourself!

USMC Vietnam 67-68