2007-08-20 12:59:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Jeeper-Peeper, if you slaughter 650,000 citizens, isn't that waging war? Or were our 4000 soldiers just killed in "training" exercises?
2007-08-20 13:12:53 · update #1
Geena makes a good point. No oil in Vietnam. Bring 'em On makes a good point. Yaktur, thanks!
Glenn, 650,000 comes from a Johns Hopkins University study using well accepted statistical techniques. If we are arming insurrgents and promoting destabilization, we're to blame. Colin Powel said, "if we break it, we 'own' it."
Sophib--you seem remarkably uninformed. Is that just sparkling party loyalty?
2007-08-20 13:50:39 · update #2
The Vietnam war had been going on for years when the US got involved, the military industrial complex (MIC) liked what it saw there and had its golden boy Bob McNamara milk it for everything they could get.
In Iraq, Bush created a war where there had not been one before, for the sake of the MIC and they are milking it for everything they can get.
2007-08-20 13:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The War in Iraq is different from the Vietnam War in a number of ways. It's in a desert rather than a jungle, for instance, and doesn't make use of conscripts. That's in addition to the obvious political and technological difference that several decades make.
2007-08-20 20:12:16 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Vietnam and Iraq are both wars waged on the innocent by the supremely stupid and arrogant politics of western money and oil.
And in both wars, innocent people died while rich men grew richer.
Thanks for the 2 points!
2007-08-20 20:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The biggest difference is that there is absolutely NO defined enemy in Iraq, in veitnam we had some of the same problems, but nothing as un-organized and purely guerilla as what we face in Iraq.
In Vietnam there were far more openly declared enemy forces, and far more casualties.
2007-08-20 20:24:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't call this a war in Iraq... We are pure terrorist there terrorizing other nations and create more terror in this entire world.
Say hello to George W-a.
2007-08-20 21:20:14 · answer #5 · answered by Conan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no jungle in Iraq.
After Vietnam, I doubt the U.S. will ever intervene in a jungle nation again.
2007-08-20 20:04:42 · answer #6 · answered by Steve 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Saddam successfully convinced everyone that he was a threat to the US. In JFK's day communism was the big threat.
2007-08-20 20:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The number of casualties are alot smaller and the form of gov differs, however everything else is the same.
2007-08-20 20:04:00 · answer #8 · answered by Gangsta Nerd McCain 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No endless replacement enemy soldiers from China.
2007-08-20 20:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by Homeless in Phoenix 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Since there is no "war on Iraq by America".....I don't know how to answer your question.
2007-08-20 20:33:53 · answer #10 · answered by sophieb 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋