Poll: Most Americans Now Say Iraq War Similar to Vietnam Conflict

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By E&P Staff

Published: November 22, 2006 12:40 PM ET

NEW YORK Claims by critics of the war in Iraq that this conflict is similar in many ways to the U.S. experience in Vietnam have long been derided by pundits and administrations officials. But a new survey finds that almost 6 in 10 Americans believe that the analogy is accurate.

A poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN finds that 58% of respondents believe the war in Iraq has turned into a situation like the United States faced in Vietnam, up six points since early October.

In another finding, a whopping 63% of Americans now say they oppose the war in Iraq, with only 33% favoring it.

President Bush this week, on a visit to Vietnam, said that the lesson of that war was that the U.S. needs to stay in Iraq and "win" this time.

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[Tom Joad]

1. And still dems want what Nixon called "an honorable exit".... we gotta

go, NOW

[Poiuyt]

2. The big difference is that we didn't start the Viet Nam War

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3. lot's of differences - this poll is about perceptions

[HockeyMom]

4. Iraq is worse than Nam,

not even close. From someone who came of age back then.

[TahitiNut]

5. I agree.

:noddinghead:

[TahitiNut]

6. So, our allies are the South Iraqis? Where's the DMZ?

We were signatories of SEATO - who're members of the South West Asia Treaty Organization? When did we claim one of our ships were attacked in the Persian Gulf?



What fucking nonsense. :grr:

[EST]

7. The fine details are, of course, different, but the analogy holds.

Both wars were started on a lie, or several lies, big and small, by a bunch of ideological meatheads who wanted to demonstrate the strength of the United States.

They wanted to show that we could, if we wanted to, slap anybody around with general impunity. They wanted to show that, while negotiation and compromise may have some place in international relations, that we really did not need to bother with such things if we didn't want to. That we were only being nice, when we were, as noblesse oblige, that everyone else in the world was automatically second class and deserved only our condescension.

Some violence, I suppose, may be important in establishing pecking order in an emerging world-state.

However, our idiot leaders started both wars, biting off more than they could chew and continued to demonstrate their ignorance and sheer stupidity by blindly continuing on in the face of overwhelming evidence against supporting their self indulgence.

My country, in the form of those self indulgent leaders, managed to destroy my life in their attempt to get me killed in the earlier war and I have never and shall never forgive them for it.

Sure the niggling details differ in the two conflicts, but the big points are stunningly similar.