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[The Cleaner]

Did we ever think this would happen all over again?

This article was from ONE YEAR AGO. Now it has become clear that we're in a bigger morasse than we could have dreamed. Bush has already said it's up to future Presidents to decide, meaning we're in it for the long term. Like LBJ, Bush is pressing on - more loss, more pain, until we "meet our objective" - whatever that elusive objective may be.

Hagel says Iraq war looking more like Vietnam

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator said Sunday the war in Iraq is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago.

"Stay the course is not a policy," said Hagel, a possible White House contender in 2008. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning...."

Hagel said more U.S. troops is not the solution. "We're past that stage now because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam," Hagel said. "The longer we stay, the more problems we're going to have..."

"What I think the White House does not yet understand — and some of my colleagues — the dam has broke on this policy," Hagel said. "The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together."

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-21-hageliraq_x.htm

[ShortnFiery]

1. Oh no, you got it all wrong Haggie! :P

The Right Wing Neo-Conservatives RUNNING OUR COUNTRY (within the Executive Branch) still believe we COULD HAVE won Vietnam ... and that WE WILL win Iraq. Don't let the politicians HOLD BACK our beloved and God blessed KILLING MACHINE! :sarcasm:

You see, the problem was that we did not allow our Military to KILL and BOMB MORE. If they let the Military do that in Iraq, all will be sweetness and light ... those little brown bastards will be made to submit or else THIS TIME we will bomb "this inferior race and culture" back to The Stone Age. Who's gonna stop us when The Lord Jesus Christ selected Dear Leader to be our Pres-I-Dent? Alleluia! Praise Jesus! Amen. :sarcasm: :puke:

[The Cleaner]

2. I always thought it was strange from DAY 1

that Bush picked mostly ex-cold warriors and Vietnamers for his cabinet. Did they forsee this war with Iraq before 2000? Did they prepare themselves for a new Vietnam? I think yes. It's just too coincidental.

Cheney, Rummy, Wolfowitz, etc. - all thse guys all cold warriors. All around since Nixon & Vietnam.