One way in which Iraq IS like Vietnam.....

[ChairOne]

Is the be-ready-for-them-in-the-future thing.

30 years from now, we're gonna have adults who were the blonde-blue chickenhawks of today bashing genuine war-hero candidates, and crap like that.

After Vietnam, it was loooong time before republicans smelled legislative power. They busted onto the scene with a cadre of Vietnam-era chickenhawks (Gingrich, et al).

One might suspect something similar will happen with Iraq. I only suggest that an archive be kept, off all the craptacular stuff the Iraq chickenhawks have been saying, so that we can pull it out 20-30 years from now when they make their comeback.