User: TexasJP

While I do understand and do not dispute your points on the similarities between vietnam and iraq, aren't there also major differences? I am pressed for time, but here are two very obvious differences.

1) American forces entered Viet Nam immidiately after communist forces split the then-free country.

The Iraqi Baath Party had a socialist rule over he Iraqis for decades before American forces invaded. Clearly there is little sence of immiciacy as there was in Viet Nam.

2) The enemy military in Viet Nam (NVA)was never defeated. Ho Chi Minh was never captured.

Conversely, this goal was achieved in Iraq within, i don't recall exactly, a year? The Iraqi military was subdued and the leader captured in a very short time period. Government destroyed.

You seem to be pointing to similarities between politicians, not similarities between wars or their circumstances.

I wouldn't have been able to vote for Lincoln in 1864 as Texas was not a member state of the united States of America, but rather a member state of a foreign nation.

Thank you. I am a student of government. And I keep a suspicious eye on anybody who fears me. In this case, that is in fact government, especially the federal level. In their quest for absolute societal control in the names of "fill in the blank," they have become all too much like a socialist state. Those of us who do not recognize government as lord and submit to them are deemed "right-wing nuts." So be it! My Lord, too, was persecuted and ultimately executed by government. He was wrongly accused.

Government: A morbid disease that grows until it consumes the body that gave it life.

All taxation is a form of slavery. "What liberty can there be when property is taken without consent?" ~ Sam Adams, leader of the Boston Tea Party