If Bush had the military that LBJ did, there wouldn't be nearly the outcry.
You don't have ten people from the same town in the same unit, or 60 people from a rural region, off to war at the same time until you start calling up the reserves.
Of course, if GW had the draft that Nixon did at the end, we never would have had a war. Not nearly enough white-bread exemptions built into it - it would have stricken fear into the hearts of soccer moms everywhere.
There aren't many direct comparisson between 'Nam and Iraq as far as the tactical situation on the ground. We are facing nothing like the NVA here, and so far the terrorists have nothing like the organization of the VC. The comparisson (and the problem) comes into the large areas of the country left effectively lawless for a long period of time. Huge caches of arms left unattended and freely looted made the insurgency's lack of an arms dispenser (China, Soviet Union, et al) moot.
Iraq = clusterfuck
Vietnam - clusterfuck of galactic proportions
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