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Mar. 16, 2007 Stop Comparing Vietnam To Iraq Stop comparing the Iraq war to the Vietnam Conflict, please. There is no comparison. If this was the Vietnam Conflict there would be thousands of protesters, eligible for the draft, riding in buses to protest at the Washington Mall, in Washington, D.C. If the conflict was Vietnam, people would be drafted. If this was Vietnam there would be many War protest songs on the radio. Vietnam never really was declared a war by the Congress of the United States of America. The Iraq War was glorified by a draft dodger. Unless President Bush served "in country", which I know the National Guard at that time was not used in Vietnam. Of course, Bush has corrected that mistake by sending thousands of our National Guard members over seas, to not be available to our governors during time of national crisis, "Katrina". The National Guard is used in combat and their supplies and trucks never return to the US after being used in Iraq. Iraq was voted by the Congress to be a war and our President three years ago declared "Mission Accomplished". There are no war protest songs played on the radio today. Vietnam was only unpopular because many pampered Baby Boomers, the first "me" generation, did not want to put their own lives on the line for a "Political War". That is why that group of individuals made such a fuss over the draft and the conflict. The Boomers today are fat and happy people turning sixty and only concerned with their bloated 401ks. They like their tax breaks and want the generation X to start saving and investing so the Boomers can sell inflated stocks to the "suckers". The children of the Boomers are the ones putting their lives on the line voluntarily, Generation "X" and the newly dubbed the "me" generation. Of course the military is currently made up of minorities and the poor, so nobody is harmed in the upper middle class. Those individuals serve to feed their families and make better lives for themselves. Some men like in Vietnam serve because they want to serve the country and protect freedom of the United States of America. Boomers and the upper middle class currently say they support the troops but many don't support the War. They enjoy their tax breaks but don't want to pay for another "political war". Who will pay for it? The children, the grandchildren and the great-grand-children will have too, if the Boomers don't.
The Wars are not similar. There are too many
differences to go over in one column. Please stop
comparing the wars/conflicts. The comparison could
start happening if the "poll takers" start busing to
protest the war in huge numbers to D.C., or a draft is
enacted.
"I understand that you and your wife are having some difficulties, and that she has grounded your son. I am here to teach you how to run your family. I understand your son Kurt is grounded, we will be revoking this. I realize that you and your son have jobs, but I insist that you create a fund for your wife from the income you receive, in order to prevent domestic troubles." Over the course of the next few years, the suited man lives in your house. Every time you fight with your wife, or your son, he intervenes. You and your wife find yourselves doing little things to try to annoy him, but your son loves the new "guest." Soon it reaches the point where he feels free to slap you and your wife when you fight. The two of you are less willing to stay married than you were when he arrived, and both of you have sabotaged the house, which he tries ineffectually to repair (the guy he hires to do the repairs says bad things about you, leers at your wife, and spends your money on shoddy goods). The only thing you can agree on now is that you hate the suited man.
The above is an allegory, replace yourself with the
Sunni, your wife with the Shia, your son with the
Kurds, and the suited man with the US. Why do they
hate our freedoms again?
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