Vietnam and Iraq

Hello again...my only solace about Iraq is that the same drum beat was sounded during Vietnam...if we leave Vietnam, it is victory for the Communists....if we don't win in Vietnam, we will be fighting the Communists in America...The Bush and Chaney mantra...plus, you are for us or against us...you support the troops or you support the terrorists....wouldn't it be nice if the Republicans changed their two note message....had a new idea...what happened to the new way forward??? well, we did leave Vietnam, and the dominoes didn't fall...the Communists didn't take over America and the world...we didn't end up fighting the Communists in the streets of America...and most importantly, we didn't bankrupt the country...so Reagan could outspend the Russians in the 1980s and Russia went bankrupt...we may have lost a war in Vietnam, a police action, war was never declared, but we ended up winning the war against Communism and Russia...maybe that is the lesson Bush needs to learn...that and the civil war in Iraq should not be confused with the war on terror...two different wars....amazing that people cannot see the difference...the Sunni fighting the Shiite are not going to attack America...the Shiite fighting the Shiite are not interesting in attacking America...they are fighting a civil war...remember in the election Bush bagged about, the Sunni did not vote or participate....the Sunni did vote on the Iraqi constitution and the Sunni against it....sure sounds like a civil war to me...not a war on terror...there was no Taliban in Iraq before Bush invaded...I have not seen any proof to support the claim of Saddam harboring terrorists...only in Chaney's pipe dreams...I totally support the war on terror. I am against our participation in a civil war in Iraq...we tried aiding a Civil War in Vietnam and failed...maybe Bush can learn from history...


Lastly, Bush invented reasons to attack Saddam and Iraq...there are plenty of evil dictators left in the world...however, most don't have oil...and if you don't think oil factored into Bush's decision to invade Iraq, go back and listen to some of his speeches before the 2006 election. I paraphrase: we are fighting in Iraq to keep the extremists from controlling the oil fields and holding the oil hostage. Read about the troubles with the Iraq Oil Deal being discussed. Bush wants to have a say in Iraq's oil production and Iraq doesn't want the West interfering with its Ministry of Oil...but a deal was agreed on recently by Iraq's cabinet, allowing foreign oil companies to cut long-term exploration and development deals with the government for 20 years, renewable for another five years...however, there is already strong opposition against the deal...Moqtada al-Sadr for one...the Iraqi parliamentarians just want to know the details...and the Iraqi oil unions are against the agreement too...sure sounds more life civil strife to me....more ammunition for the civil war Bush created...all in the name of terror...