Re: Iraq war similar to Vietnam: U.S. Senator

In article <1124756361.092095.207470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Faris
Jawad" <ana_faris_bila_jawad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Iraq war similar to Vietnam: U.S. Senator
>8/22/2005 3:45:00 PM GMT
>
>A prominent Republican senator and a possible presidential candidate in
>2008 said on Sunday that the war in Iraq destabilized the Middle East,
>and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict, Reuters news agency
>reported.
>
>"What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my
>colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy," said Nebraska
>Sen. Chuck Hagel, a top member of the Foreign Relations Committee and a
>Vietnam War veteran.
>
>Hagel also said that there are many similarities between the Iraq war
>and the U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam. "We are locked into a bogged
>down problem not unsimilar or dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.
>The longer we stay the more problems we are going to have," he said on
>"This Week" on ABC.
>
> ...
? Hagel is correct since we were told that American soldiers were dying
in Vietnam to protect Americans back at home, and now G. W. is claiming
that our soldiers in Iraq are protecting us from danger.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."

- Hermann Goering

"You can fool some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all
of the time."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865.)

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