American Deaths in Iraq Surpass Early Vietnam Total (11/03 article)

[DemoTex]

According to the Army's Center for Military History, the Vietnam War began on December 11, 1961, when two air cavalry units consisting of 400 soldiers arrived in Vietnam to Americanize the war against the North. From 1962 to 1964, according to Reuters, America incurred 392 fatalities in that war.

Since 1964 American technology has vastly improved the survivability of combat. Kevlar body armor, improved surgical techniques and facilities, improved armored vehicles, improved night vision and improved tactics all help keep fatalities down. But even with this technological edge that the modern-day Army enjoys over its 1960s counterpart, American casualties in Iraq now exceed those in Vietnam's early days.

According to Reuters 397 American troops have so far died in the Iraq war, a conflict which is growing more similar to Vietnam every day. These 397 casualties have died despite the increased survivability of combat. (More ..)

http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000763.php

Of course, we are at 578 combat deaths in Iraq (reported by an untrustworthy source, the Bu$h regime) today, one year into the Bu$h war.

Interesting and disturbing comparison. Not exactly apples and apples, but close enough to scare the hell out of me. I, for one, think that with 4-more of Bu$h we will have a full scale Vietnam on our bloody hands. Will Syria and Iran become the Cambodia and Laos of the Bu$h war? Bu$h's excuses for attacking either of those two nations could indeed be a Nixonian echo, with the words harboring the enemy reverberating like a mantra from the Nixon-Kissinger killing machine.

[DoctorWeird]

1. Not a Quagmire, huh?

B.S! When this war rolled out they said it wasn't anything like Vietnam, certainly not a quagmire. There are way more coincidences than they are willing to admit. 1.) power granted to the president through hysteria 2.) hysteria created by the government against an invisible enemy (communists and terrorists) 3.)attacks within the united states against those that dare speak against the administration 4.) No formal declaration of war issued and 5.) No clear goals "Fight Communism" "Fight Terrorism". What a bunch of crap.

[DemoTex]

2. DoctorWeird

You have just zero-beated the correct frequency. You are tuned in to the DemoCraticUnderground and it sounds like you have been here for years. Welcome to DU!

[DemoTex]

3. Oh, hell

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