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Old 02-18-2007, 10:03 PM  
Splum
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Originally Posted by websiex View Post
The United States had a full all out ground offensive in Vietnam, over 3.5 million US troops served in SE Asia during that war... I wouldn't call that "pussyfooting". Also, we had over 500,000 troops on the ground, (3.5 million switching in and out). It was a full blown war basically, and the US got beat... Iraq appears to be heading down that same road.
Iraq isnt even CLOSE to Vietnam what are you talking about? You just said the numbers yourself. We havent sustained the casualties we did in Vietnam.

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U.S. dead: 58,209
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
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