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Originally posted by liquidmoe
If Im not mistaken the death toll for US troops in Iraq has just hit 1000 and alot of that is from friendly fire and mission accidents. The death toll in Vietnam based on various sources hovers between 48,000 and 58,000. Not to mention the landscape of the fighting is much different, and the politics of the time is very different as well. Although there are some similiarities between the two wars, and the main would be we are fighting a war in a nation that has nothing to do with us, the death tolls, circumstances, and everything regarding the two wars is vastly different on vastly large scales to seriously compare the two.
Let's see if the death toll will even hit 10K for US soldiers. That is not to downplay the war effort at all, but simply to say that Vietnam was a fuck up by all accounts left and right, while Iraq can still certainly be redeemed.
The reasons for war were obviously false, but we should have seriously questioned those reasons before we went to war, finding out they are untrue does nothing because we simply cant end our involvement over night, so lets focus on what we are doing there, instead of why we are there, when its obvious we are there because of a bunch of lies that none of us really cared about, until the time for change had already passed.
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I don't buy into the left wing agenda that we were lied to and had no right to goto war in Iraq... Saddam, had terrorist ties... and he had potential to make WMD's... not to mention our allies where starting to do business with him again.. It is not like the left are trying to paint it.... That Saddam was a good boy.. he radically changed his beliefs and views and suddenly just wanted to run a peacefull nation... These same leftist seem to forget who stole his people's food for oil money to build palaces and who knows what else....