Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but . . .
I am apparently not the only person in the world to think that a lot of the mistakes of the Vietnam War are being repeated with Iraq. This particular opinion is from Max Cleland in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Sorry you didn't go when you had the chance." Heh heh. (I was alerted to this by the very excellent Earl Bockenfeld's Radio Weblog.)