Reply #7: I think it is worse for reasons that have nothing to do with the deaths..

[dicknbush]

In Vietnam you had a cohesive determined enemy with an objective that was more then just about get the US out of Vietnam...They had a pride of country. They wanted to unite thier country. I do not see this happening in Iraq even if we did everything we said..install democracy help them stnad up so we can stand down blah blah blah. There is no group that I am aware of in Iraq that has a strong desire to create a strong and proud Iraq. You have a mish mash of neighborhoods if you will that have blood feuds. In a way it is like the bloods and the crips and they have been at each others throats for thirty years or more and that is what we have helped create in Iraq. Sadam Hussein as bad as he was was basically a Tito. He was feared but he was a cohesive force that held Iraq together. Of course that is not to say that what is happening now in Iraq would not have happened anyway if Saddam had died orr been killed but at the least we would have no dog in the fight and we America would have the luxery of sitting back and waiting for the victor to emerge and then try to deal with them especially as it regards the oil factor Any way I think Iraq is not as bad as Vietnam in the realm of American lives lost (at least not yet) but as it regrds the resolution of the fighting......this fight will be going on long after we have left I am afraid and in the words of Gahandi " Yes leave. In then end General Yes you will simply leave"