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To: tejek who wrote (232758)	5/14/2005 8:43:47 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574439

Vietnam redux? If its Vietnam, where is the NVA? What is NVA? You're posting an opinion on how Iraq is another vietnam and you don't have a clue as to "who" the NVA was???

To: tejek who wrote (232758)	5/16/2005 7:43:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574439

The NVA was the North Vietnamese Army. It did most of the majority of the killing of Americans in Vietnam, and it was what eventually conquered South Vietnam after we not only left the country but stopped supplying new weapons and ammo to the South and stopped providing air support. One of the biggest difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that there is no force in or around Iraq to play the role of the NVA. The government in the South was eventually strong enough to handle the Viet Cong, but it couldn't deal with the NVA without a lot of American support. When that support went away and the NVA started a massive invasion the south fell. It was that conventional invasion, not a guerilla campagin or an insurgency that defeated South Vietnam Edit - Steve makes a good point. If your going to call anything "another Vietnam" you should know enough about the Vietnam war to know what the NVA was. Tim