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Is my memory that bad??

backhoeboogie

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I remember my brother and cousins being drafted to go to viet nam.

I remember Kent State incidents.

I remember a much higher death toll each and every day in viet nam.

I remember that war being fought "against communism" and not terrorism launched at the U.S. or failure to comply with treaties.

Is my memory that bad? Why does fff keep quoting the lib media comparisons for the current war to viet nam? Have we started drafting 18 year olds kids and making them go?
 

fff

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backhoeboogie said:
I remember my brother and cousins being drafted to go to viet nam.

I remember Kent State incidents.

I remember a much higher death toll each and every day in viet nam.

I remember that war being fought "against communism" and not terrorism launched at the U.S. or failure to comply with treaties.

Is my memory that bad? Why does fff keep quoting the lib media comparisons for the current war to viet nam? Have we started drafting 18 year olds kids and making them go?

We're not drafting anyone, which is why you're not seeing draft cards burned. :roll: But we are taking high school drop outs, those with felony convictions and men up to 42 years old. We didn't depend on those people to keep our military running before Bush chose to invade Iraq.

You can pick out one thing and say it's not the same, but the American public has a different opinion and they don't like it and they want out. Iraq is the same quagmire as we had in Vietnam: no clear policy for success, no clear enemy, and no plan to get out. A recipe for disaster. If Bush hadn't spent the Vietnam years drunk, he might have know better.

The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds 63% of Americans saying the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, a new high mark by one percentage point.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106783/Opposition-Iraq-War-Reaches-New-High.aspx

BTW, perhaps you missed it, but Bush invaded Iraq because Saddam had WMDs and might give them to terrorists to use on the US, not because he hadn't complied with treaties. Oh, wait, he didn't have WMDs. Then Mr. Bush said we did it to save the Iraqi people. Oh, wait, the Iraqi people didn't welcome us with open arms. Some of them took up arms against us. Well, for sure it was to establish democracy in Iraq. Right. That's it. That's why the Iraqi Constitution installs Sharia law as the final law in the country. Wait, no, it was to lock in cheap oil. That didn't work either.
 
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