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You don't hear it said much any more - but analysts used to keep saying you can't fight terrorist with military force. But I guess nobody listened to them so they stopped saying it.
Vietnam was a tragedy because it lasted longer, Iraq however is worse and has the potential of becoming a greater trafedy if it doesn't end soon.
Because we did not start Vietnam, we just joined in and in Vietnam we were actually fighting an army.
Iraq is worse because we started it. Iraq was a wealthy country who was never a threat to us, so our government made up a bunch of crap to rally the American people against Iraq, and it was all lies.
So we went over there, a country who never did anything to us and bombed the hell out ot em killing over 100,000 innocent civillians and they're pist - dam straight and should be. you'd be pissed to if someone dropped a bomb on your house.
Do we apologize when we realize our mistake - no, we just keep on pretending like we're some kinda hero. Thank god that there is at least a bad guy (saddam) so we can look a little good. But, that bad guy is only there because we helped put him there, so now we're twice bad, and it's a miracle that any Iraqi likes us.
There is no way in the world that the Iraq war can be seen as a good war. But yes, in the beginning, brave men and women volunteered to go over there believing they were saving America from a threat of weapons of mass destruction.
I once had these old posts on these old web pages I have since taken down expressing my fear that our soilders and most Iraqis would be killed by Saddams NBC weapons - to learn that our government knew that there never was any but made it up just to go to war is criminal - people should go to jail over that. This is far worse than Vietnam.
"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."
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