| I found 22 ways the wars are dissimilar and 15 ways | | | | a. Vietnam-The communists wanted the reunification |
| that they are similar. (A long post but a quick read.)NO. | | | | of Vietnam a communist dictatorship. |
| Iraq is not like Vietnam.1. What US leaders got us into | | | | b. Iraq- Terrorists want to kill Americans and other |
| the war? | | | | westerners while spreading Islamofascism. (If their goal |
| a. Vietnam- Democratic Presidents Kennedy and | | | | were for the Americans to leave, they would just |
| Johnson. Did you say Republican President Nixon? | | | | simply have to stop attacking. The Americans would |
| Liberal revisionist history has painted this war as | | | | assume that the country was secure and depart)6. |
| Nixon's war. | | | | Was there a traditional military victory? |
| b. Iraq- Republican President George W. Bush.2. How | | | | a. Vietnam- No. Political (not strategic) decision was |
| did the war start? | | | | made not to conduct a ground attack and occupation |
| a. Vietnam- The US slowly increased their military | | | | of North Vietnam. |
| presence in South Vietnam during the Cold War in | | | | b. Iraq- Yes. The US occupied Iraq in a historically |
| order to stop the spread of communism. Democratic | | | | successful military victory.7. Did we kill or capture the |
| President Lyndon Johnson fabricated the Gulf of | | | | enemy's murderous dictator? |
| Tonkin incident to justify a full-scale war. | | | | a. Vietnam- No. Ho Chi Minh died a natural death in |
| b. Iraq- Islamofascists slowly increased worldwide | | | | 1969. |
| terrorist attacks against the US and other western | | | | b. Iraq- Yes. Saddam Hussein, who promised to fight |
| governments. After 9/11 President Bush justified a | | | | to the death and encouraged (death threats) his |
| full-scale war based on Iraqi support of al-Qaeda and | | | | subordinates to do the same, surrendered as he was |
| Iraqi possession and historic use of weapons of mass | | | | found cowering in a hole in the ground.8. Bombing |
| destruction.3. Who ended the war? | | | | campaigna. Vietnam-Conducted carpet-bombing of |
| a. Vietnam- Republican President Richard Nixon | | | | South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Cambodia resulting |
| authorized peace talks and withdrew US forces in | | | | in indiscriminate collateral damage of public life support |
| 1973 with a promise to the South Vietnamese | | | | infrastructure, buildings, homes, and croplands, causing |
| government to provide financial and military equipment | | | | widespread civilian death. |
| if North Vietnam attacked again. North Vietnam | | | | b. Iraq- Precision bombing minimized collateral damage |
| attacked again in 1975 and the US Congress refused | | | | and civilian deaths.9. What happened after the bombing |
| to send the support. This doomed our South | | | | campaign? |
| Vietnamese ally. | | | | a. Vietnam- The US departed the country. |
| b. Iraq- Unknown at this time4. Goal of US | | | | b. Iraq- The US rebuilt the country.10. US KIAs. |
| involvement. | | | | a. Vietnam- 5,000/yr |
| a. Vietnam- To contain communism. Failed. | | | | b. |
| b. Iraq- Regime change. Succeeded.5. Enemy goals. | | | | |