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Article: COLUMN: Is Iraq the new Vietnam?
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- December 14, 2006
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Grayson Lyles
University Wire
12-14-2006
(The Guilfordian) (U-WIRE) GREENSBORO, N.C. -- As the fourth anniversary of the Iraqi conflict nears, the chorus calling the Iraqi conflict the next Vietnam is increasing. When people mentioned the two in the same sentence no more than a year ago, the military scoffed and remained defensive on the subject.
"One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security," said Sen. George McGovern to DemocracyNow. They're small countries with a fraction of the population the United States has, a fraction of the economic and industrial power and fraction of the military power. If we had not ...