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how does this mirror VietNam? I believe we started out with relatively few casualties. Slowly but surely, the deaths started to go up. VietNam had resorted to guerrilla warfare (sound like Iraq?).

We were in VietNam for 10 years. I believe we lost about 58,000 US troops. Now it took a while for Americans to get riled up. The US almost became a civil war over this. That's what it took to finally get us out of that IndoChina mess.

(by the way, RumsFailed and Cheney were lurking in the background, like the tarantulas they are). And here we are again.

I'm wondering: will the US population predictably act like the last time around? Or will the 'rage' factor be shorter this time, because of the Internet? Because that's what's going to put a stop to this.

The Generals wanted to keep going in VietNam. They would have sacrificed 580,000 US troops. They were unwilling and unable to get out.