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Guest · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject: Iraq Is Not Viet Nam

John Kerry just yesterday evoked this thought, that the war in Iraq is worse than Viet Nam.

If I recall correctly all of the Vietnames were not in favor of a divided country. Iraq on the other hand. ad least more than 80% of Iraqis, desire to be free. Iraq is not pushing forth terrorism as a way of life, unlike Viet Nam where the politics was communism.

Iraq was the victim of a tyrant in Saddam Hussein. They are fighting for freedom not ideology. I believe this stark difference separates the Iraq War from the Viet Nam War. Further, we can win this war because the people want to.

Scott · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: Iraq Is Not Viet Nam

air_vet · PO2 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 374

The real root of the VietNam war was French colonialism. They had a great thing going for them prior to WW II and wanted to return to that position after the war. The French did almost NOTHING to improve the infrastructure of VietNam while they were in control - few schools, hospitals, powerplants, etc.. (The Brits did a great job of infrastructure building and education in their colonies.)

We got initially got involved in VietNam to try and help the French because we thought they were our allies from WW II. The "domino-effect" reasoning came later.

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300zxuser · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

Gee, when I was in the bush in the Nam, the last thing on my mind, especially when bullets were flying was politics. When one is in a firefight, you kind of forget where you are, and why you are there, all you think about is how much closer to the ground can I get?
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