Why Iraq is not like Vietnam.(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  August 27, 2003 ;     746 words ......many dissimilarities between Vietnam and Iraq. * The Vietnam war was fought in rice paddies...000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese. In Iraq, the American death toll...striking similarity between Vietnam and Iraq, namely the goals and strategy...

Some See Parallels Between Iraq, Vietnam

AP Online;  April 21, 2004 ;   GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer;   685 words ......see the possibility of a Vietnam-style "quagmire" in Iraq. Says Powell, "We must...Mass., is calling the Iraq dilemma "Bush's Vietnam." There are no assurances...reconstruction aid for Iraq; post-conflict Vietnam didn't cost America a...

Bush draws parallels between Iraq, Vietnam.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 22, 2007 ;     787 words ......parallels between Iraq and Vietnam, Bush said: Then as...society. Bush used Vietnam as an example of what might happen in Iraq if U.S. forces were...S. involvement in Vietnam already have taken place in Iraq. We are already talking...

Iraq is not Vietnam; it's probably worse

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 22, 2006 ;   TRUDY RUBIN;   787 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 11-22-2006 Iraq is not Vietnam; it's probably worse TRUDY...comparison Let me start by saying Iraq is no Vietnam. The complex Iraqi situation...years. Spilling over Unlike Vietnam, the continuing Iraq war would be likely to spill...

Parallels drawn between Vietnam, the war in Iraq

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  August 19, 2006 ;     633 words ......ever correct diagnosis. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we face a vicious insurgency...of the American public. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we have failed to cut off the enemy from re-supply. In Iraq, as in Vietnam, we have had ever-shifting...

Iraq more complex than Vietnam

Charleston Gazette;  November 24, 2006 ;   Trudy Rubin;   764 words ......down to a real debate over Iraq, President Bush went to ... Vietnam. The symbolism is astonishing...Let me start by saying Iraq is no Vietnam. The complex Iraqi situation...lasted for 15 years. Unlike Vietnam, the continuing Iraq war would be likely to...

Vietnam echoes in Iraq A retired general considered an expert in...

Columbia Daily Tribune;  August 12, 2007 ;     787 words ......and military leaders fail in Vietnam and Iraq? What has Iraq taught the U.S...McClatchy Newspapers reporter. Iraq and Vietnam, he said, are both products of...deaths." The flawed assumptions of Vietnam and Iraq are nearly mirror images of one...

Hagel's year in Vietnam shaped feelings on Iraq.

Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE);  January 21, 2007 ;     787 words ......few similarities between Iraq and Vietnam. Calling Bush's new strategy...further, calling conditions in Iraq an absolute replay of Vietnam. Then, at a Senate hearing...very much at that time in Iraq, not unlike in Vietnam. When he sees combat footage...

COLUMN: Is Iraq the new Vietnam?

University Wire;  December 14, 2006 ;   Grayson Lyles;   743 words ......sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America...way the administrations work in Vietnam and Iraq. "I find the basic parallels...on an ideal like Communism in Vietnam, Iraq is fighting a civil war as the...

Iraq Is Iraq; Vietnam Was Vietnam

NPR All Things Considered;  January 26, 2007 ;   Michele NORRIS;   511 words ......Things Considered 01-26-2007 Iraq Is Iraq; Vietnam Was Vietnam Host: Michele NORRIS...comparisons between the wars in Iraq and Vietnam. He's not convinced they are at all alike. DINESH D'SOUZA: Iraq is not Vietnam and here's why. First, we had...

A quagmire? Vietnam, Iraq & other analogies.

Commonweal;  January 16, 2004 ;   Lopez, George A.;   787 words ......difficulties facing U.S. troops in Iraq with what happened in Vietnam. They reveal a governmental...passion for juxtaposing Vietnam with Iraq, one Vietnam veteran, Colin Powell, remarked...U.S. liberation in both Vietnam and Iraq. Moreover, both wars were...

Iraq conflict 'worse' than Vietnam war.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  October 20, 2006 ;     626 words ......the situation in Iraq was more grave than Vietnam nearly 40 years ago...Coalition, said: Iraq is even worse than Vietnam. The US were able...country. He went on: Iraq is much more strategically important than Vietnam from the point of...

Iraq is another Vietnam

Oakland Tribune;  April 17, 2004 ;     634 words ......filling the air with cries of "Iraq is another Vietnam." In the syndrome-addled brains...down." The differences between Iraq and Vietnam are much starker than the similarities...that liberals can understand: Iraq is another Vietnam. Fallujah is another Tet. And...

Iraq isn't like Vietnam — it's much worse

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 9, 2005 ;   Lee Benson Deseret Morning News;   554 words ......activists that the war in Iraq is just like the Vietnam War, a misguided and...disagree. The war in Iraq is a lot worse. Vietnam had its problems, starting...military presence in Iraq continues, the more it makes even Vietnam look sane. Which brings...

Fed: Iraq could be Howard's Vietnam

AAP General News (Australia);  April 9, 2004 ;     787 words ......sides of the Pacific between Iraq and Vietnam, which lasted 11 years and claimed...sees clear parallels between Vietnam and the Iraq war. "In both cases, you had...officer Neil James disagreed. "Iraq and Vietnam are quite different in a geographic...