Analogies: Vietnam And Iraq Similar?

This war is probably a really big deal historically in terms of America’s
perspective on the world, says John Mueller, a political scientist, at Ohio
State University. What you’re going to get after this is ‘We don’t want
to do that again- No more Iraq’s’ just as after Vietnam the syndrome was
‘No more Vietnams’ (Page, 2005, p.1a).
With that in mind, the Iraq War has assumed the air of a lost cause; with the media coverage and criticism of President Bush lowering American support, it is no wonder analogies of Vietnam keep coming up.
However; Bush intimated, in one of his rare press conferences, that the mere mention of the Vietnam War in relation to the present war was unpatriotic and a betrayal to the troops fighting in Iraq (In Monthly Review, 2004).
Brief history of Vietnam War
The Vietnam Conflict was a vicious, unsparing war; with 204,000 U.S. and allied forces joining South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and the Peoples Republic of China; who were trying to overthrow the government of South Vietnam.
After 58,156 U.S. and allied soldiers had been killed, captured, or listed as missing in action (MIA); the end came with a Cease-Fire Agreement which was signed on January 27, 1973 and within sixty days all U.S. forces and prisoners of war (POW’s) were out of Vietnam ( Historic Event 1940-1975, 2006).

Brief history of Iraq War
One of the worst days in the history of the United States was September 11, 2001. Airplanes were high jacked and flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killing almost 3,000 people. Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, was behind this atrocity; but the U.S. and allied forces started war with Iraq under the pretense that Saddam Hussein was involved and hiding him out.
The reason for war then changed abruptly to the fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s), which to date have never been found. President Bush declared war on March 15, 2003. As of July 24, 2006, there have...