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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:51 AM Original message |
Why is winning in Iraq so much more important than winning in Vietnam? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because the neocons |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. Because of the Reverse Domino Theory |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Which to me gives it even less credibility |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Of course and it gets worse. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
5. Many of the same actors from that era are trying to reassert the power |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. BECAUSE we lost in Vietnam. Some have never recovered from that shame. |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. Because Iraq has oil, Vietnam didn't? |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
8. The greater the lie, the more desperate the liars... |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
9. While I disagreed strongly with the Vietnam Conflict I was |
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