Iraq Is NOT Like Viet Nam So Stop Saying That......

[leftchick]

US Army contractors, working as translators, question suspected Iraqi insurgents lying handcuffed on the floor, as soldiers with the 2-17 Field Artillery Regiment Alpha Company raid their home in Ramadi, 100 kms west of Baghdad.(AFP/Patrick Baz)



An Iraqi boy stands by the doorside of his home while US soldiers with the 2-17 Field Artillery Regiment Alpha Company search the house looking for insurgents in Ramadi, 100 kms west of Baghdad.(AFP/Patrick Baz)



Neighbors dig through the rubble of a house before finding the bodies of two brothers killed in an apparent overnight airstrike in Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites) in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[Modem Butterfly]

1. Yeah! For instance, Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam

Contrast that with Iraq!

What's the smilie for cynical grin/sinking feeling inside?

[leftchick]

6. where is that photo from?

is it recent? what a jerk he is...

[Modem Butterfly]

12. It's from an interview near the end of his term as Gov of TX

I pulled it from the DU front page and, at 4 AM EST thought that it would be perfect in my sig line. But now that I'm more awake, I think it looks a bit hostile, like I'm giving the finger to whomever I'm responding to. What do you think?

Either way, I agree, Bush is a major league asshole.

[leftchick]

13. I don't take it personally...

keep it for a while. It shows chimps* true nature, an immature asshole.

[mrbill]

2. halliburton was then known as brown and root in viet nam........

iraq is a bigger can of worms.

remember this group, the mujahedeen, they make the viet cong look wimpy.

[H2O Man]

3. That photoof the little boy

just breaks your heart. It is such a contrast to the madman Bush, grinning and saying he is bringing freedom to the Iraqi people.

Truth forever on the cross,
Lies forever on the throne;
But with that cross
sways the future
and in that dark unknown
Stands the Lord
Keeping watch upon His own.

[leftchick]

4. Yes indeed, a huge contrast...

While that little boy was being scared for life here is bush* yucking it up yesterday in Ohio. Disgusting and disturbing at the same time...

[Demos]

5. Its much worse than Vietnam

In Vietnam we were just dealing with a few million Vietnamese in one country - now we have over a billion Muslims against us - about 1 out of every four people on this planet, and in the process we have managed to alienate most of the non-Muslim populations as well. Besides they have all the oil.

[LynnTheDem]

7. Iraq is WORSE.

MORE troops have died in the last 19 months of Iraq than the number of troops that were killed in the FIRST FIVE YEARS of Vietnam.

More troops have been WOUNDED in Iraq than were wounded in the first 5 years of Vietnam.

Vietnam was 10 years; Iraq so far is 19 months.

At the current rate in Iraq, if it lasts as long as Vietnam we'll see far more than 58,000 dead troops.

The other part that makes Iraq far worse than Vietnam is the world effect. Vietnam only affected Vietnam & the USA. Iraq is affecting the entire world. And not in any way that's positive for America.

[G_j]

8. sigh

btw, there is going to be peace rally here on Nov 3, whoever wins the election.

[leftchick]

9. Where and what time....

in Asheville? Thanks and peace :)

[G_j]

10. oh sorry, yes in Asheville

5 o'clock at Pritchard park I believe. I will double check and PM you if you are interested. :-)
It is a 'word of mouth' thing since nobody has applied for a permit.

[Democracy Died 2004]

11. One thing i remember from Vietnam

days are Walter Cronkite every night telling us the Dead/Wounded for the day. It was so much in your face back then. Now it's all sanitized. I believe a week straight of the blood and gore being shown on all the networks <the truth if you will> would end this charade pretty quick. But our balless media won't go there anymore.

[leftchick]

14. oh they will start televising the Iraq mess when....

John Kerry is elected. You wait....