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Quote by: Scribbler1 I disagree. Since the Korean war NO wars have been fought in defense of this country, and that is the only good reason to use our military strength. The Communist boogeyman was the same as the "terrorist" boogeyman. It was to scare the ignorant only. There was no real threat to the US from N. Vietnam and there is no hotbed of international terrorism in Iraq, although to listen to Bush you would think so. The Vietnam war was originally about getting the French out, if memory serves and this war is about getting US out.
And what have you experienced? I'm assuming you are too young to have served in Vietnam so I assume veterans have told you how they felt. |
Actually most of the vets I know never speak negativly about Vietnam, but not everybody had a bad time over there. Not everybody is having a bad time in Iraq. Some do, some don't. It is dangerous, I have no doubt about that.
My understanding of Vietnam was the South Vietnamese asked us for help.
I think with Iraq, you either think we do have a large terrorist threat that needed calmed, or you don't. You may think we could have done it differently, say with intelligence, not force. You also may think that we didn't need to mess with Iraq cause it was no threat, and I understand that, but some may think it's more that Iraq was vulnerable, and we could get in the area and be visible, plus if Saddam had had weapons everything would have gotten all the more dangerous for us.
I'm probably as old as you are. I grew up with Vietnam on the TV every night.