Do some vets think we should have continued the Vietnam war indefinitely?

[PA Democrat]

Are 58,000 + names on that wall in D.C. not enough?

Kerry's testimony before Congress helped accelerate the US pullout from Vietnam. How much longer would the war have gone on without the courage of Kerry and others who protested Vietnam? How many more would have died on both sides?

Vietnam put our soldiers into an environment that was ripe for the commitment of atrocities: unconventional warfare where soldiers did not know who was the enemy. There were no distinct battle lines and the enemy did not always wear a uniform. Our soldiers in Iraq face a similar situation today.

During the Vietnam War, people who dared to question that war and to describe the horrible acts being committed in our name were put on Nixon's enemy list and labeled traitors. The rage over the war was directed at those who dared to protest the war rather than the leaders who wrongly led our country into that war.

And the same thing continues today, still over Vietnam, and now also over Iraq. Will we ever learn from the past?

[Inland]

1. What 'Bush wants you to learn from Vietnam is

you should shut up and let the leaders win the fight. Not that wars can be wrong, not that strategies can be bad, not that our civilian leaders make up causes for war, not that bad wars divide the nation. Next lesson: why you have to vote for the incumbent and how bringing up his screwups and lies hurt the country.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. We won't learn until we confront the past

That's why I'm hoping the reopening of these issues will prove beneficial in the end.

Vietnam has never really been confronted. That's why there's never been a reconciliation.

[PA Democrat]

4. Sad, but true

And many families are now paying the horrible cost of those lessons unlearned.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Obviously the Swift Boat Veterans for truth (chuckle)

think that we should have continued

That said, most of the people who think this were NEVER in Nam and will never either serve, or have a close blood relative serve in Iraq.

Most war boosters are not putting their fanny on the line and they are cowards to the core, yellow bellied cowards that are glad when OTHERS die for them.. hence the term chickenhawk

They are also bullies and rememmber bullies will cry to mamma.