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To: epicure who wrote (221097)	2/26/2007 3:16:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Seeing Iraq as Vietnam is not seeing a problem, because Iraq is NOTHING like Vietnam. In Vietnam, the VC were beaten before one conventional army (the south) lost to another conventional army (the north) after the south had lost its superpower backing. This should be obvious and has no relation to how Iraq will turn out or what US policy should be now. Also, it steams me that crowd who see forcing the end of US involvement in the Vietnam war as their big success argued at the time that results wouldn't be so bad, and have never had a moment's second thoughts about the million dead and million fled. Never once have I heard someone say, well I thought we shouldn't be in Vietnam but considering how it turned out, I don't think we should have cut off support for the South Vietnamese army, as North Vietnamese communism was a rotten result.