"Joe" wrote in message ...
While that may have been dramatic, at least South Vietnam had some
underpinnings of and a modest desire for democracy. Iraq is a land of
feudal warlords and fundamentalists who will rip and rend the country into
territories and factions once they've been given their "freedom."

People are people, and all want to be free.

Yes, but not all people in the world want republican/christian
repressiveness shoved down their throats.