Viva_La_Revolution
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Sun Oct-08-06 11:44 AM
Response to Reply #31 |
| 41. I didn't think about that, sorry, it was late |
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I was just comparing the first years of each.
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| -Is Iraq getting worse than Vietnam? |
cynatnite |
Oct-08-06 12:50 AM |
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It is much worse. Screwing up Iraq is the blunder of all blunders. |
The_Casual_Observer |
Oct-08-06 12:52 AM |
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Yup. |
BlueIris |
Oct-08-06 02:54 AM |
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Only our Vietnam soldiers can answer that for us? |
MadMaddie |
Oct-08-06 12:53 AM |
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Two different programs. See my reply #6. |
TomInTib |
Oct-08-06 01:05 AM |
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Being a Vietnam vet, I wouldn't trade my experience for a tour in Iraq for |
Mountainman |
Oct-08-06 01:11 AM |
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Let me put it in movie terms |
hsher |
Oct-08-06 12:54 AM |
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Vietnam had a higher total population and more enemy troops |
Kagemusha |
Oct-08-06 12:55 AM |
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No. |
wtmusic |
Oct-08-06 12:56 AM |
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What we are overlooking here is that apart from the known casualties |
TomInTib |
Oct-08-06 01:01 AM |
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I think it is worse for reasons that have nothing to do with the deaths.. |
dicknbush |
Oct-08-06 01:02 AM |
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Iraqis have intense pride in their country |
wtmusic |
Oct-08-06 01:14 AM |
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I haven't seen very much evidence of that. |
Selatius |
Oct-08-06 01:35 AM |
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A major reason Iraq has never "held itself together" in modern times |
wtmusic |
Oct-08-06 10:59 AM |
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Actually, dicknbush, the non-urban Vietnamese were... |
TomInTib |
Oct-08-06 01:19 AM |
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Vietnam - 1961 to 1964 |
Viva_La_Revolution |
Oct-08-06 01:09 AM |
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I stand corrected |
hsher |
Oct-08-06 01:17 AM |
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And that's not counting the dead civilians either... |
cynatnite |
Oct-08-06 01:18 AM |
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Until mid-1965, it was mostly MACV. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-08-06 01:41 AM |
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absurd and misleading use of statistics |
onenote |
Oct-08-06 08:15 AM |
#31 |
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I didn't think about that, sorry, it was late |
Viva_La_Revolution |
Oct-08-06 11:44 AM |
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Interesting stats. Thank you. |
Vidar |
Oct-08-06 08:18 AM |
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Oh God Not By A Long Shot. It Ain't Even Close. |
OPERATIONMINDCRIME |
Oct-08-06 01:15 AM |
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No: 300,000 wounded in Vietnam..major combat 1965-1972 |
alcibiades_mystery |
Oct-08-06 01:19 AM |
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I don't think the comparison is stupid... |
cynatnite |
Oct-08-06 01:23 AM |
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You must be from western Pennsylvania.."needs asked"? |
alcibiades_mystery |
Oct-08-06 01:33 AM |
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Insults aside... |
cynatnite |
Oct-08-06 03:08 AM |
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I agree. The insults were completely unwarranted. Weird! |
oblivious |
Oct-08-06 04:09 AM |
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It does seem to be a problem with reading |
alcibiades_mystery |
Oct-08-06 07:11 AM |
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Viet Nam not a civil war? |
nguoihue |
Oct-08-06 08:04 AM |
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In ways yes, the amount of depleted uranium we've used must be vast |
Rex |
Oct-08-06 01:25 AM |
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Iraq will have WORSE CONSEQUENCES if the war is lost than Vietnam |
Selatius |
Oct-08-06 01:28 AM |
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Can't be compared from the outside. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-08-06 01:33 AM |
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we got sent to Viet Nam alone, |
saigon68 |
Oct-08-06 02:48 AM |
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we love your kind of 'trouble making' saigon! |
leftchick |
Oct-08-06 08:20 AM |
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My apologies, TahitiNut... |
cynatnite |
Oct-08-06 03:12 AM |
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in terms of U.S. casualties, it is unlikely that iraq will 'eclipse" NAM |
onenote |
Oct-08-06 08:18 AM |
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None needed. I wasn't being testy toward you ... just in general. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-08-06 08:51 AM |
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Not a blatant crime? |
nguoihue |
Oct-08-06 08:35 AM |
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Please pay attention to the 'term of art' that I used. |
TahitiNut |
Oct-08-06 09:06 AM |
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Not talking "pursuit" into Laos and Cambodia |
nguoihue |
Oct-08-06 09:25 AM |
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In Vietnam we were engaged against the third largest army in the world |
Toots |
Oct-08-06 09:00 AM |
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Which is why this won't end soon |
saigon68 |
Oct-09-06 09:02 AM |
#42 |
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