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We did NOT lose militarily in Viet Nam. Our soldiers won the war. We lost because we allowed the Leftists and Peaceniks in this country to convince Congress that we had to surrender.

This is NOT another Viet Nam because there are too many of us who will not allow our gov't to surrender again.

Our military will win, and President Bush and his team will stand behind them. The majority of the country will stand behind the President.

Some folks say: We did NOT lose militarily in Viet Nam. Our soldiers won the war.

We killed more of the enemy, won more of the battles but we lost that war. 50,000 dead for what?

We should have just leveled Hanoi and Haiphong and on down the line until there weren't any more North Vietnamese left to pick up a rifle. Instead we got involved in a police action. House to House, rice paddy to rice paddy, anthill to anthill, valley to valley. The enemies game and rules.

Of course we won militarily, so what we lost the War, and 50,000 great Americans.

The question is what are we going to do in this war on terror? The same thing? Rules of engagement, truces, ceasefires?

I don't see people in America telling the President to fight this war for real, I just see people supporting the President blindly. We did that in Vietnam and lost even though our troops kicked butt the whole time.

Just because you don't surrender don't mean you can't lose.
We could have stayed in Vietnam and sent one million troops and we still would have won militarily but we would have lost the war and had to leave just like we did in 1975 because we were fighting according to the enemies rules.

Just like in Nam we can lose in Iraq, even if we do not surrender or pull out or lose our political nerve. Even if we were to stay there with 500,000 troops we would lose because we are playing by the enemies rules. AND the enemy, has no rules.

We allow the enemy to regroup, we allow the enemy to hide in churches, we conduct limited kinder gentler compassionate conventional warfare when we have the military might to conduct unlimited complete annihilating quick warfare. Instead of, after telling the civilians to get the hell out, blasting Fullujah with B52s, we call a truce.

We are afraid and scared of emboldening the enemy, instead of making sure the enemy is afraid to death of emboldening US!

So what does the enemy do? The resupply, regroup, attack our supply convoys to Fallujah, and other rear areas.

And soon, very soon, you will see the enemy take advantage of our kinder gentler compassionate combat by exploding a horrifying WMD and killing 5000 of our troops. That is what we will harvest for all of our good will and "hearts and minds" tactics.

The People need to tell the President:

Either Fight with everything we have - or get everything we have - out of there.