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Article: A deadly deja vu.(Editorials)(Iraq conflict shares similarities with Vietnam)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2005
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Cindy Sheehan's 15 minutes of fame have provided a defibrillator shock to the barely beating heart of the nation's antiwar movement, prompting a new wave of comparisons between the conflicts in Iraq and Vietnam.
Many of the connections are spot on. Others are the product of an overheated nostalgia for the days when a military draft gave the antiwar movement's issues an urgency and audience that can't be duplicated in the era of an all-volunteer military.
Still, the Iraq-Vietnam comparison persists because the sense of deja vu is deeply disconcerting for people old enough to view the war in Iraq through the prism of ...