Wacky,

"I simply compared the popularity of Vietnam to my perception of the popularity of Iraq."

First you compared Vietnam to Irag in terms of exit or motivation to exit saying it was questioning the command that motivated the exit. That is just not the case. You then side stepped made the popularity the focus. I never disagreed with the popularity issue.


"It was you who asserted that the two were completely incomparable."

They are and many many experts have made that case. The liberals tried and failed over a year ago to draw that comparison only to have been routed by historical and factual arguements. Certainly you can draw a few parallels but from front to back the differences are glaring. Namely , It is a delared war, It's an all volunteer Army, the troops support the war, the populace of Iraq supports the war without getting into strategy and politics on the side of Islamo facist and the west..