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April 09, 2004
The Similarities of Vietnam and Iraq
Posted by Frank J. at 08:19 AM | View blog reactions | Comments (36)

Some politicians (especially ones with brobdingnagian heads) have been comparing the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam, and, since politicians are smart, this must be taken seriously. Here are some of the similarities I have identified:

* Both Vietnam and Iraq have an 'i' in them.

* Both are foreign countries.

* Both wars were opposed by stupid, smelly hippies.

* Both wars were supported and then opposed by John Kerry.

Those are some striking similarities. So, if the war is like Vietnam, what did we learn from Vietnam? Well, what we learned from Vietnam is that, if you lose a war like Vietnam, forever after people will question future wars by saying they are like Vietnam. Think about how things would be different if we decisively won Vietnam; then, someone not liking a war would say, "We're going to get bogged down in this war like... well... no other war in American history." And no one would listen to that person.

Moral: Win your g'damn wars.

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36 Responses To "The Similarities of Vietnam and Iraq"

FIRST!

#1 - Posted by: rockynoggin on April 9, 2004 08:35 AM

You g'damn pants pooper!

#2 - Posted by: Frank J. on April 9, 2004 08:36 AM

Hee hee hee!

Another similarity:

The people of Vietnam and the people of Iraq who were actually happy that the US was/is there to fight tyranny never get interviewed by liberal reporters.

#3 - Posted by: rockynoggin on April 9, 2004 08:41 AM

i feel smarter having read this post, especially after i looked up that colossal vocabulary word that you threw out. now i don't have to learn anything else today; soap operas it is.

#4 - Posted by: sarahk on April 9, 2004 08:56 AM

rocky,
I was thinking of putting that in there, but I decided to leave it to just the silly similarities because people trying to compare the two are silly.

#5 - Posted by: Frank J. on April 9, 2004 09:05 AM

Make love.... not war!!

#6 - Posted by: x on April 9, 2004 09:14 AM

Forgive my unsillyness. I was also going to say that both countries were farg'd up by the French blah blah blah...

#7 - Posted by: rockynoggin on April 9, 2004 10:02 AM

One is really, really wet and the other is really, really dry. Oh crap, nevermind.

#8 - Posted by: Connecticut Yankee on April 9, 2004 10:16 AM

Both Iraq and Vietnam have no coastline on the west...which made that scene at the end of The Green Berets with John Wayne and that little Vietnamese kid kinda fishy, what with them watching the sunset on the beach and all...but I bet John Wayne coulda figured out a way to make that happen...

..where'd everybody go?

#9 - Posted by: Dave in Texas on April 9, 2004 10:19 AM

And in both wars, our wins have been portrayed as losses by the media. Even catching Hussein.

#10 - Posted by: Miranda on April 9, 2004 10:21 AM

Great post. I would love to an IMW where kennedy tries to deny his complete drunkeness. I have rosatia!!!! Really!!!
UH...Allergies!! That's it..allergies!!
that was all i could think about when i saw his little speach about "bush's vietnam".
How could anyone listen to that puke? ..much less vote for him.

#11 - Posted by: Adam from Utah(NBCOFL) on April 9, 2004 10:32 AM

Watch it with all the "g'damn"ing on Good Friday, Frank. A solid quarter of your readers have an extraordinarily low blastphemy tolerance, and the last thing we need is a palace revolt while the Munuvians are massing troops on the border.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to worship my golden calf. Blood for Baal! Blood for Baal!


S

#12 - Posted by: sandor at the zoo on April 9, 2004 10:42 AM

I truly hope there's a big difference... That we stay the course and kick ass, all the way to Damascus, Riyadh and Teheran. Pyongyang and Hanoi while we're at it, weather permitting.

#13 - Posted by: Ran on April 9, 2004 10:54 AM

In one aspect I hope that Iraq turns out to be like Vietnam.

Two words: Carpet Bombing

#14 - Posted by: El Jefe on April 9, 2004 11:03 AM

X:

I don't think you're capable of doing either!

#15 - Posted by: bootswebb on April 9, 2004 11:27 AM

Boots, you are wrong... did both this morning.

#16 - Posted by: x on April 9, 2004 11:32 AM

You have to do the dance, Sandor! Otherwise it's just not cool.

#17 - Posted by: Miranda on April 9, 2004 12:10 PM

I want to do the dance Miranda, but every time I jump up on my desk and shake my booty the guy in the next cubicle complains. "Can't you worship your ancient Mesopotamian god quietly?" he asks.

Personally, I think Baal is going to smite him soon.


S

#18 - Posted by: sandor at the zoo on April 9, 2004 12:19 PM

It's not "Bush's Vietnam", but it might just be "Bush's Northern Ireland". So at all costs we must avoid getting scared that the rest of the world is judgemental - we've already bombed the fuck out of Iraq - the "softly-softly" approach is hardly going to make them like us...

#19 - Posted by: Bugbear on April 9, 2004 03:50 PM

thanks for clearing that up, frank.

#20 - Posted by: RT on April 9, 2004 06:04 PM

I don't think Baal will smite him unless you cut your arms more. Here! Use my potato peeler!

#21 - Posted by: Miranda on April 9, 2004 07:58 PM

"what did we learn from Vietnam?"

and the answer is...

Democrates lose wars.

#22 - Posted by: The Dead Frenchman on April 9, 2004 09:31 PM

Democrates? Was that the really whiny Greek philosopher?

#23 - Posted by: Big Dog on April 10, 2004 03:52 AM

I might have to use that name for an IMW...

#24 - Posted by: Frank J. on April 10, 2004 09:51 AM

Will Democrates have the Celtic name Brobdingnagia, and hail from Gaul?

Just askin'.

Special Ed

#25 - Posted by: Special Ed on April 10, 2004 02:09 PM

I bought a copy of Battlefield:Vietnam today so I could find out if it's really like Iraq. First thing I'm gonna do is jump on a Navy gun boat and shoot up a civilian village! Then, I'll run for President of the Sims Online since I'll be a real war hero!

#26 - Posted by: rockynoggin on April 10, 2004 02:29 PM

Special Ed, democrats in Gaul are not leftists. They are the minority of the right that did not join with the politic of Chirac when he created the MPF in 2002 after his reelection with 82% of the votes. Democrats in France are the most pro-Americans, but they only score... well less than 10%.

#27 - Posted by: Amphitryon on April 10, 2004 04:21 PM

Actually... I know how to spell the word, I just find it sinful to actually use it so I modify it slightly so that I dont feel bad and have to destroy my computer.

No ones ever noticed before... I'll start using dummycrats as my filler word instead around here since you guys are so damn picky.

#28 - Posted by: The Dead Frenchman on April 10, 2004 09:03 PM

perhaps Baal is asleep? or taking a dump?

#29 - Posted by: Dave in Texas on April 11, 2004 03:25 PM

I thot Democrates was the really waffly liberal Greek philosopher...

#30 - Posted by: VCF55 on April 17, 2004 03:49 AM

i feel that these wars are similar except that most of the youth today doesn't give a rats behind!

#31 - Posted by: Brian Slaught on May 4, 2004 08:10 PM

It's people like you-- too blind to see beyond their "my country, right or wrong" patriotism-- that are destroying the lives and homes of people all over the world. It's easy to cynical in front of your keyboard, in the comfort of your heated, running-water, electrical home where you face no more than generally-applicable angst and the leftist rants of those you've so *admirably* deemed "smelly hippies" (well done, by the way. The maturity of the comment was outstanding). I don't imagine the Iraqis find it quite so simple, but then, they're just poor pathetic Muslims, who so clearly *want* the US to come in, bomb their cities, kill their brethen, and loot their homes, creating general havoc and upheaval. I love your indefatigable logic. Go to hell, asshole.

#32 - Posted by: Rils on May 19, 2004 09:45 PM

By the way, I'm a retard. (Notice the lack of email.)

#33 - Posted by: Rils on July 15, 2004 06:20 AM

George W. Bush as John Wayne, both managed to weasle out of being involved in any combat in Vietnam war-while both later, managed to fool public into appearing as Heroes-with NO HEROIC record of any type.
Both are quite good actors-and both are Republicans-course, John Wayne is on the other side now-heaven or hell?
Both John Wayne and George W. Bush were heavy drinkers and partiers, up until 40s-when they were middle aged, so then claimed they had "Repented" !
If you buy that-will-guess you are another one on the list of "easily fooled", which both men saw public were easily deceived by lies.
Gypsy

#34 - Posted by: Kay on September 9, 2004 09:30 PM

VANITY FAIR magazine sais that the problem with GW Bush is not that he never served in Vietnam but that he totally refuses to learn the painful lessons learned there...Ahhhh, there's the rub, "painful," for it can't be painful if you've never been there. So, when ex-combat marine vet Pat Robertson warned him that a lot of men will die if he invades Iraq, Bush brushed him off, assuring him that it would not be. But it was, and too many died and are STILL dying.

In Vietnam we bombed the hell out of the countryside to save American lives. This made for millions of refugees to the cities. As a result, South Vietnam went from 85% rural to 75% urban in two years and the peasant "sea" in which swam the VC "fish" dried up. Somehow, we created jobs for the refugees and a bustling economy. So desperate was Hanoi, claiming that the people had become "petit bourgeois" that it ordered a desperate attack by the VC at Tet 1968. After that there was no more VC, only Hanoi's PAVN regulars!

But in Iraq, modern and urban before we got there, Bush and Rummy tried to do it on the cheap. To date most Iraqi's have no way of supporting their familes. So, they get mad and join al-Zarkawi cutting heads off all the foreign workers we bring in instead of employing the locals.

Whether drunk or sober, GW never suffered the pain of the rest of us not born with a silver foot in our mouths. So he takes it all oh sooooooooooooo light.

Moral is, we gotta learn how to pick candidates better so that we don't ever again leave the voters to chose between the ventral bottom of a horse and the dorsal back-end.

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