"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:58:47 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

wrote:
Don White wrote:

Why are you dissin' the French? They softened the Viet Cong up for you
al through the 50's and you still couldn't win.

Courtesy of the Paris "peace" talks?

I'll diss the french on that one

What's absolutely amazing is that we didn't seem to learn much from our
war against Vietnam and its various "insurgencies." I'm hearing the same
sorts of really stupid talk from our Prez and company about our war
against Iraq as I remember from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and
there is still a large percentage of American people who actually
believe the Chimp-in-Chief and his henchmen. When will they ever learn?

I'm not sure you can directly analogize the Vietnam conflict with the
Iraqi War, but I get your point.


If you made a product comparison chart for the two wars, you'd find enough
shared characteristics to be alarming, at least to anyone who doesn't NEED
to kill something in order to be happy.