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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22444)2/25/2005 8:25:19 AM
From: sea_urchin  Respond to of 81913
 
> in Iraq, he is facing another Vietnam, not another Normandy

news.com.au

>>AUSTRALIA'S involvement in Iraq would end in disaster just like Vietnam, a retired general said today.

"It will get no better – (only) worse – and eventually public opinion in both the US and Australia and elsewhere will demand our troops come back and when they do they will be pretending that the locals can handle it all themselves, and we will just leave a bloody mess."

He said Iraq could never be democratic.

"This talk about fighting for democracy, that is absolute, to use a phrase, bullshit," he said.<<