You want to make a comparison of Vietnam with Iraq? OK

[Mountainman]

Compare the anguish of a mother or father or husband or wife or brother or sister of a dead Vietnam soldier with that of a dead Iraqi soldier.

The question many of them asked 30 some years ago was why? For what reason did he/she die?

The same question we ask today. Does it matter to those families the number of deaths? Yes it does but that one death, their family member, is the one that hurts the most.

[dbt]

1. Well done, sir!

And I keep hearing how this ain't another Viet Nam. And I keep noticing how the families get the same answers they got thirty years ago...

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dbt

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

2. Those who argue against the "another Vietnam" argument

usually only focus on the NUMBER of dead and the amount of time we've been there, as though those are the only two criteria that are valid in making that comparison.

We shouldn't be there, and every person who dies there, soldier or civilian, is dying for nothing. That's close enough to "another Vietnam" for me.

[Fixated]

5. .....

I don't support this war, but that's so far off it's remarkable. The whole significance of 'Nam was numbers and time. What else was there that separates it?

[Steven_S]

3. One thing they all have in common....

They died from a lie, every one of them.

Then, as now. They died from a lie.

[Kanary]

4. Thank you, Mountainman

Beautiful posts.

That's the sum total.

Grief.

Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?

Kanary

[pansypoo53219]

6. without

improved medicine and body armour-there probably be as many dead today. also dead for no bloody reason.