Why Iraq is not Vietnam:
Coward Dean, leading anti-American American spokesman for the Al-Queda and the head of leading fifth column, the Dummycrats, declared surrender, “We can’t win in Iraq, it’s just like Vietnam.” (Note: The party formerly known as the Democrat Party has admirably chosen to realize the hypocrisy of being against the propagation of democracy in the world so they have chosen to change the party’s name.) Well, the situation may look to defeatists like Vietnam all over again, and while the Dummycrats are staking their future on America’s defeat and their mindless fascination with making it Vietnam, it’s not.
In Iraq we are fighting, along with the ever strengthening Iraq forces, an enemy composed of a portion of the minority Suni population, the Saddamist and Islamic fascists led by al Zaquari. This combined coalition cannot hold a city or town and is not safe anywhere in Iraq. The leader of these foreigners in Iraq is a leader in Al-Queda. This is the group that took down the World Trade Center on 9/11. The leaders of the communists in Vietnam never attacked New York City.
In Vietnam, two great communist powers in the world supported and backed the North Vietnamese. In Iraq, support comes, less openly, from Iran and Syria. These are two evil regimes for sure, but not the same as Russia and China. Not the same as the Vietnam War.
In Iraq, a democracy is building, step by step in a very rapid way, providing an alternative to the fascists plan for Iraq that Al-Queda foresees. That incidentally, is a vision greater than just holding Iraq, but rather making it the capital for increased military power to first unify all Muslim countries under a single control then taking over the entire world. This is a little broader the Vietnamese communists plan was which was to control their own country. Not a good outcome but not a threat to the whole world either.
Often the critics say our efforts in Afghanistan were ok but Iraq was a mistake. Fighting there has made the Islamic fascists angry. That’s like saying American forces approaching the Rhine River made the Germans angry and led to the Battle of the Bulge. Iraq is just the current battlefield with these crazies who want to take the world back the twelfth century and battle the Crusaders again. The struggle is not about Iraq any more than World War II was about Guadalcanal.
Forgotten, is the struggle in the Philippines to bring democracy to that former Spanish colony. A rebel insurgency was put down and today the country is, for better or worse, a democracy. This struggle in Iraq is more similar to that than Vietnam.
Unlike Vietnam, the struggle to bring democracy to Iraq is one we cannot afford to lose. Establishing a Islamo fascist regime in Iraq would create a base for the killers which would out do the one in Afghanistan allowed by the Taliban. Even though they won, the Vietcong never planned an attack on Western civilization as do the Islamo Fascists.
Finally the key difference is that now, even though there is still the same cabal of treachery in the US Senate calling for cut and run, the US will never do that as long as President George Hebert Walker Bush is President.