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No, the analogy is false.

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, there could not be a greater difference between a war fought with weapons of indiscriminate slaughter by a conscript Army deployed against a highly evolved revolutionary movement, as Vietnam, and a campaign by all-volunteer Army directed at the overthrow of a hideous and dangerous tyranny, and then taking the form of a drive for free elections and a constitution, as in Iraq.

In Iraq we are pursuing and killing people who really are, unlike the Viet Cong, the common enemies of humanity. These are people who have every intention of carrying forward a war against western civilization, if not in Iraq, at the next available opportunity.

There is another difference. Vietnam was a liberal war, waged by democrats, ended by a republican. Iraq, however, either for good or ill, will be laid at the doorstep of republicans.

For more on this fallacious analogy.

http://www.slate.com/id/2098642
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