FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Agreed and ditto as well..
Just to sprinkle on a little more...
Many liberal eat-weanies and panzie-@sses like to make Iraq - Vietnam comparisons. Many of them use casualties numbers from 1961-1964. It was after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August, 1964) where the war escalated and in 1965 the number of US service men KIA totaled 1,926!!!! 1,926 IN ONE YEAR!!!!! The worse year - 1968, 16,869 US servicemen KIA, the same year as the Tet Offensive.
3 years Vietnam = 23,700 US service men dead.
3 years Iraq = 2510 US service men dead
In 3 years in Iraq a crazed dictator was removed from power, thousands of terrorists who came to Iraq just to fight against the US were killed (who might of just crossed the Mexican border and brought their fight right here) and finally a major terrorist organization who has attacked targets in the US and Europe has been kept off balance and now realizes the west isn't putting up with their sh*t anymore! The price to pay; 2,510 Americans, two Australians, 113 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, three Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 31 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians.
Iraq isn't done yet but I think things are a hell of a lot better there than in Vietnam, 1968. You could probably make comparisons in the leadership and compare notes on who was dumber, Johnson, Bush, McNamara or Rumsfeld, but that's where it ends...
BTW as of today there are about 152,000 troops in Iraq accomplishing the mission. There were 440,000 troops in Vietnam in 1968.
The only REAL comparison I see is the bravery of those who were asked to fight in both conflicts....
And all is not well in the US military?!?
Just to sprinkle on a little more...
Many liberal eat-weanies and panzie-@sses like to make Iraq - Vietnam comparisons. Many of them use casualties numbers from 1961-1964. It was after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August, 1964) where the war escalated and in 1965 the number of US service men KIA totaled 1,926!!!! 1,926 IN ONE YEAR!!!!! The worse year - 1968, 16,869 US servicemen KIA, the same year as the Tet Offensive.
3 years Vietnam = 23,700 US service men dead.
3 years Iraq = 2510 US service men dead
In 3 years in Iraq a crazed dictator was removed from power, thousands of terrorists who came to Iraq just to fight against the US were killed (who might of just crossed the Mexican border and brought their fight right here) and finally a major terrorist organization who has attacked targets in the US and Europe has been kept off balance and now realizes the west isn't putting up with their sh*t anymore! The price to pay; 2,510 Americans, two Australians, 113 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, three Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 31 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians.
Iraq isn't done yet but I think things are a hell of a lot better there than in Vietnam, 1968. You could probably make comparisons in the leadership and compare notes on who was dumber, Johnson, Bush, McNamara or Rumsfeld, but that's where it ends...
BTW as of today there are about 152,000 troops in Iraq accomplishing the mission. There were 440,000 troops in Vietnam in 1968.
The only REAL comparison I see is the bravery of those who were asked to fight in both conflicts....
And all is not well in the US military?!?