AOL poll: Is Hagel right about comparison of Iraq w/VietNam...76% RIGHT

[WiseButAngrySara]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050821125009990002&ncid=NWS00010000000001

What do you think of the senator's comparison of Iraq with Vietnam?
He's right 76%
He's wrong 24%

Total Votes: 15,131

Hagel Says Iraq War Looking Like Vietnam
'We Should Start Figuring Out How We Get Out of There'
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, AP

"By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning," GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel says.
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 21) - A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago.Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service in Vietnam, reiterated his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to leave Iraq.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. The problem with GOP comparisons to Vietnam

Their idiot base thinks that Vietnam was a swell idea and that they would have won if it had not been for anti-war protests.

[NYC]

3. That's true.

Many people obviously didn't read The Pentagon Papers.

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. Oh, surely not in this day and age! Viet Nam wasn't a swell idea if you

had slept through it. Wasn't then, isn't now. The Iraq War never had ANY credibility, in the absence of lies; not 9/11, not WMD, not SH as a terrorist threat...

VN was based on stupid ideology, not so much lies and greed, IMHO.

[tridim]

2. Now they should ask this question:

What do you think of the anti-war/anti-Neocon activists who 3 years ago warned everyone that Iraq would compare to Vietnam?

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. Wouldn't that be perfect? But most weren't listening then; I think they

are waking up now, no?

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Wow, I'm surprised at the results

What do you think of the senator's comparison of Iraq with Vietnam?
He's right 76%
He's wrong 24%
Total Votes: 18,041
Note on Poll Results

at 6:15pm est