Poll: Most Americans Now Say Iraq War Similar to Vietnam Conflict

[sabra]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003437919

Poll: Most Americans Now Say Iraq War Similar to Vietnam Conflict

NEW YORK Claims by critics of the war in Iraq that this conflict is similar in many ways to the U.S. experience in Vietnam have long been derided by pundits and administrations officials. But a new survey finds that almost 6 in 10 Americans believe that the analogy is accurate.

A poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN finds that 58% of respondents believe the war in Iraq has turned into a situation like the United States faced in Vietnam, up six points since early October.

In another finding, a whopping 63% of Americans now say they oppose the war in Iraq, with only 33% favoring it.

President Bush this week, on a visit to Vietnam, said that the lesson of that war was that the U.S. needs to stay in Iraq and "win" this time.

[grytpype]

1. Bush: "It's similar but in a good way!"

[saigon68]

4. The good part is we don't use as much napalm

[reprobate]

9. ANY napalm is too much napalm

[saigon68]

10. Sorry I forgot the Sarcasm tag

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[natrat]

2. yea but i bet they stole more this time around

[iconoclastic cat]

3. That damned 33% AGAIN! nt

[subterranean]

5. I'd say it's similar only in the sense that we can't win it militarily.

I should qualify that by saying that we already won the war in 2003. What we can't do is win the occupation with our military power. A much better analogy for Iraq is the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. How did that work out?

[Cleita]

6. And yet we never learn.

I compared it to Vietnam even before we started the invasion and was laughed at, but both wars were wars of invasion started with false evidence.

[otherlander]

7. So does that mean Bush has a plan to get out?

[stepnw1f]

8. George Was Too Scared to Go

so he opted to start another Vietnam.... what a ballsey guy.