VIETNAM:
1.
The
cost to the United States had been almost 46,000 men killed and more than
300,000 wounded.
2.
North
Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Vietcong had lost a million men on the
battlefield.
3.
Many
Vietnamese civilians became victims and wide areas of territory used by the
communists were declared “free-fire zones.”
4.
The
favorite weapon of the Americans was the helicopter.
5.
A
march, estimated that 300,000 people had paraded on Pennsylvania Avenue and had
attended an antiwar rally at the Washington Monument demanding a rapid
withdrawal of United States troops from Vietnam.
6.
In
eight years, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, millions of tons of bombs,
panoply of deadly devices and billions of dollars, they had not won the war.
IRAQ:
1.
The
invasion of Iraq began on March 19, 2003 when Mr. Bush ordered missiles fired
at a bunker in Baghdad where he believed that Saddam Hussein was hiding.
2.
Cost
the lives of 4,487service member, with another 32,226 wounded; more than one
million service members served in Iraq and tens of thousands of Iraqis died.
3.
The
height of the war was in 2007, there were 505 bases and more than 170,000
troops.
4.
The worst of the violence was
concentrated in Baghdad, where dozens of people were killed in explosions and
fusillades of gunfire that transformed the morning commute into a landscape of
carnage.
5.
In
2008, Iraq and the United States signed the status of forces agreement,
negotiated in the last days of the Bush administration, which called for the
withdrawal of all American troops by the end of 2011. But the agreement was
reached with a wink-and-nod understanding that a politically palatable way
would be found to keep a substantial American troop presence in the country
after that date.
6.
Spread
over 8 years, the Iraq war cost $709 billion.
COMMON:
1.
The
American government used deceit and fabrication to justify both wars.
2.
Both
involved secret operations in neighboring countries and escalations with only
temporary impact.
3.
Both
have attempted to stop the spread of an ideology that confused and scared
Americans.
4.
Both
were focused in far off lands on the edge of Asia.
5.
Both
revolved around fear for what might happen if we failed to win the war.
6.
Both
caused the American government to sacrifice American civil liberties.
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