3. Saddam had WMDs, and so he threatened the entire Middle East, and even our own Eastern seaboard, what with aerial drones, anthrax, nukes he was building and so forth.
4. Democracy would break out all over after we won.
Of course the wars are similar in other ways as well.
1. We stayed in Vietnam a long long time (though not long enough, you imply).
2. The Vietnam War spread to Cambodia.
3. It threatened to become WWIII.
4. Our leaders said publicly we were winning, long after they acknowledged in private we were losing.
5. It cost billions that might've been spent on any number of things--like new sources of energy.
6. Mostly lower middle class and poor people died in Vietnam, very few sons of senators.
7. The war spawned genocide.
8. In the end we had to leave.
9. Even though we lost, Vietnam is a friendly trading partner.
Amazing! That's just like Iraq.
1. We've stayed a long time. It's been years now since you flew onto that ship at San Diego, dressed like a pilot, and strutted under that banner, "Mission Accomplished."
2. Your war threatens Iran and Pakistan. You could make the case it spread to Lebanon and Israel last year.
3. It could become WWIII, should you unleash Cheney and the Neocons again.
