Webb: Some Vietnam parallels 'superficial' [View All]

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http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192838595

WASHINGTON -- Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who led combat Marines in Vietnam, doesn't see eye-to-eye with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry on drawing parallels between Vietnam and Iraq.

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Yesterday, Webb cautioned lawmakers to be careful about drawing parallels between the Iraq situation and Vietnam. Webb did not criticize Kerry, saying only that he wanted to respond to a remark of his.

"I think there are parallels and there were many people at this table who opposed the Vietnam War, but some of those parallels are superficial," he said at the Foreign Relations Committee meeting.

Webb, in response, offered data from a Harris Survey poll in 1972. The poll showed 74 percent of Americans agreeing, versus 11 percent, that it was important for South Vietnam not to fall into communist hands, he said.

"This is not a parallel situation," Webb said, referring to Iraq. "The public is not supporting this. No one is supporting it in large, and we have to find different solutions."