History strikes back: boomer war in Iraq another Vietnam

...[W]hen politicians, analysts and journalists of a certain age use those words when describing Iraq, they are signaling the association in their minds that President Bush’s war has become a Vietnam: a place of senseless death, a botched policy prosecuted by a president who is utterly immune to the public’s opposition to the war. "Vietnam References Overtake Iraq War" Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (Indiana) So much for learning the lessons of history...