is iraq worse than vietnam ?

Question

4 years later there is limited electricity, gas shortages, danger for everyday iraq's, iraq's no longer see us in a positive light since we have been there over half million of their brothers and sisters have died.ok since we cant just pull out so does that mean we are gonna stay forever.there has been war there for thousand of years. what makes us think that by dropping bombs on em for 4 years is gonna change things there. by the way i spent a year there so i have seen first hand how hopeless it is there.

Answer 1

It depends on your perspective.
As an American who has lived through both wars, one could say that you're comparing apples and oranges. I suspect that many Americans thought we were doing the "right" thing back then, when Communism was seen as the Great Red Menace. It's difficult to comprehend though, how a tiny, faraway country being taken over by the Communists could actually have had much effect on the world. Our Fearless Leaders liked to talk about a "Domino Effect", as though nation after nation would fall until it reached clear across the ocean to the ol' U.S. of A.
Of course, South Vietnam "fell" anyway (after the deaths of nearly 60,000 American troops and God only knows how many civilians) and in the most horrible way possible; we just up and left them to their fates. While I supported the cessation of U.S. involvement, I believe that every single South Vietnamese citizen who had cooperated with the U.S. or SVA should been been offered--and given---political asylum in the U.S. Of course this didn't happen; I clearly recall seeing those people attempting to cling to the last American helicopters leaving the embassy as Saigon fell. What a travesty.
However, the Vietnam war did not have nearly as many repercussions as the Iraq War WILL. Yes, there are far less U.S. troops dead because of it to date, but the worst may yet be to come. Not only are so-called insurgents fighting U.S. troops, they're fighting each other; Iraq is one small step away from full-fledged civil war in a part of the world that's already more than volatile. South Vietnam fell rather quietly; the people stood by in the streets as NVA tanks rolled through Saigon. Iraq, with its immense stores of oil, will not do so. In addition to infighting among various religious sects, every major country in the world will be attempting to pull it in different directions, including Russia and oil-hungry China. Saddam will have ended up being replaced--mark my words---by a powerful, anti-American religious government.
There is enormous potential for the ignition of WWIII as a result of our interference in Iraq, and anyone who doesn't see it is blind. Add to that the deaths of upwards of 600,000 Iraqi civilians, and nearly two million refugees. And to think that Iraq was once a fairly westernized, secular, functioning nation, dictator or not.
Little wonder the rest of the world despises us.

Answer 2

Yes Iraq war is worse than Vietnam war in one sense the USA can not leave Iraq like it did in Vietnam. Iraq war is an Israeli lobby war and the next war will be Iran war and so on.

Answer 3

yes... totally hopeless... they should be sent right back into a dictatorship where they are provided all things including that warm fuzzy feeling of security... especially the women! They sure do hate the fact we took out Saddam... I saw the disappointment in their faces when they were tearing down all the statues and pictures... and we haven't rebuilt anything... I heard their children were only eating mud pies but now the US is even taking away the dirt to do that! We have killed thousands of their civilians since being there and they have only died because of us.... never mind that Saddam killed 300,000 Kurds or more and the mass graves that were found... they were so much better off before we got there.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ <--- don't look at that link... it isn't as doom and gloom as the 600,000 + number libs like to toss around proudly.

Hey... did Bush take the Sun away yet? I am not sure as I am in my basement right now in the fetal position waiting for the sky to fall.

I even gave you a pity star... just to try and cheer you up!

Answer 4

Is Iraq worse than Viet Nam? My first answer is "not yet." But in my opinion, it's only a matter of time. In Viet Nam, 50,000 people died (and that's just on our side), so in terms of numbers, Viet Nam was worse - but again, that is a matter of time. I believe Iraq is just as bad, certainly, and that we need to be out YESTERDAY. Nearly 4,000 men and women have already paid the price for Bush's ignorance, stupidity, and arrogance.

Answer 5

The only way you could even begin to ask this question is if you have no idea how bad Vietnam was. Read through some of Tim O'Brien's work. Iraq is clearly a difficult assignment, but it is a cakewalk in comparison to Vietnam.

Seriously read some of O'Brien's ficiton works - I would strongly suggest The Things They Carried. It will give you tons of perspective on the question.

Answer 6

OK how about we look at it like this :

-we ousted an extremely crazy leader
-we have built 382 schools
-we have added 72 water township wells
-we have helped to pave over a 1000KM of roads
-we have updated all power stations and have begun making them larger to accommodate the entire population
-more people have telephones now
-there are more Iraqi business owners there now
-more of their population on the Internet
-Countries Gross domestic product has increased since our take over
- 70% of the country is 100% secure
- In 2005, travel agents began offer vacation packages to northern and southern Iraq.
-Anbar Province is 60% more secure than 4 months ago, and 80% more secure than a year ago.
-Amusements parks have reopened in Baghdad.
-more and more Iraqis and standing up against the insurgents and Al Qaeda.

does this sound worse than vietnam- ask you self after 4 yrs in vietnam what situation was the country in- had it been taken over by US forces - ousted a leader and an insurgnecy take effect?
*sigh*

Answer 7

That depends on which fabricated story you believe, John Kerrys winter Soldier or Scott Beauchamp's fabrication in the New Republic called Shock Troops, Proven atrocities are one thing but outright fabrication is the lefts province.

Answer 8

Iraq is in bad shape for sure, but would it make anything better by just leaving?

Answer 9

The first rule of war is don't go to war if you don't intend to do whatever it takes to win. Second to that is to make war so horrible that nobody wants to continue to fight. The bloodier it is the sooner it's over, WW1 and WW2 are examples of this fact.

Answer 10

Given the fact that we should have actually LEARNED something from our debacle in Vietnam--but obviously didn't--my answer is an emphatic yes.