Iraq: Vietnam replayed

As the Iraqi resistance gets bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly, political parallels pile up between the Iraq and Vietnam wars.

And while the hawks are failing all over themselves to reject the comparison of Iraq to the debacle in Vietnam, analysts suggest that Iraq’s surprisingly resilient resistance, and the scandal of abusing prisoners at the hands of U.S. military personnel all recall the trauma of the distant jungle conflict.

Recent polls have showed increasing number of Americans now feels that Iraq war is similar to Vietnam, but still, nearly half of the American public resist equating the illegal occupation with Vietnam.

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