From the BBC Online
Dated Monday November 3
Spectre of Vietnam looms over Iraq
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
These are difficult days for President Bush and comparisons with Vietnam are being made.
The attack on the Chinook helicopter brings back too many bad memories.
Even the doyen of Washington's political correspondents, David Broder of the Washington Post, is now referring to the V word, albeit in the context of quoting someone else.
He reported recently on an event about President Lyndon Johnson, whose career was destroyed by Vietnam.
One speaker, the Harvard historian Ernest May, said that Iraq was "eerily reminiscent" of the early days of Vietnam, adding however that it was not clear whether the "crumbling" in Iraq would be as pervasive as that in South Vietnam.
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