Why will the Iraq war end up like this war from 33 years ago?

1975: Saigon surrenders:
The war in Vietnam ended today as the government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to North Vietnamese forces.
The President, Duong Van Minh, who has been in office for just three days, made the announcement in a radio broadcast to the nation early this morning. He asked his forces to lay down their arms and called on the North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong to halt all hostilities. .................Fast forward to 2008, Will the article be the same? Instead of Vietnam it will read USA will halt all hostilities against Iraq.

The simple answer to this is question is Americans don鈥檛 learn from history. I have stated it before and I will state it again, we keep repeating the same blunders of our forefathers because once one generation passes, the next generation refuses to heed the lessons learned from a prior era. So the same vicious cycle continues of our boys being sent to fight pointless wars, so that the military industrial complex can profit, both monetarily and politically.

So the same bloodshed, the same heartache, the same amputees, the same massive loss of life, the same expenditure of untold billions transpires each and every generation. I honestly believe that the poor grasp our students have for history isn鈥檛 the result of lazy students, or a defective system, but instead our government purposely designs ignorance into the education system, so that we will have a new batch of credulous youth who will again accede to the lie that the wars we fight in this country actually mean something significant. I just simply cannot believe that a group of people can be that obtuse. Our ignorance must come from a purposeful plan by the government to degrade our understanding of history and the humanities so that they will always have a fresh cache of automatons to do their bidding. It is time that we break this cycle so that every citizen can learn the basic truism that governments must look out for the benefit of its citizenry, and not for its own sake.

Because the Dems do not have the guts or the integrity to see things through.

No, different times, different place, different mentality, different military doing the fighting...

But then again, the same people that screams MAKE LOVE NOT WAR are screaming NO BLOOD FOR OIL today, they didn't accomplish much back then and they are not accomplishing much now.

When America enters into a war without having a plan to achieve complete and unconditional surrender of the enemy, there is no way to win the battle and conflict and achieve complete victory on the battlefield! Korea and Viet Nam fit this bill, so does Iraq! When it becomes impossible to gain a complete victory due to the fact there is no government and they are just terrorist groups...they all must be eliminated to achieve victory! Iraq fits this bill! Eventually, something will and must give in Iraq! America cannot stay there forever, it is a foreign nation!

because it is based on the same disgusting white house lies.

BAH! Deployments suck!

Sorry, random thought.........