Anyone see this? Brent Scowcroft: Iraq may become 'another Vietnam'

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http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/29/1077989419687.html

February 29, 2004 - 10:12AM

A former US national security adviser who served in the administration of the first president Bush, warned today that the war in Iraq threatens to grind on for years like the Vietnam conflict.

"It could become a Vietnam in a way that the Vietnam war never did," Brent Scowcroft said in an interview published in Portuguese weekly newspaper Expresso.

"Our exit from that country did not have grave consequences, while if we wanted to get out of Iraq today, the consequences would be very deep."

Scowcroft, who led a classified review of US intelligence in 2001 and heads the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board of the current President George W Bush, was an outspoken critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, arguing it took the focus off the fight against the extremist al-Qaeda network.

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[historian]

1. no kidding?????

Even my uneducated neighbors knew it was a disaster in the making from day one and this from an ex marine repuke!!!

[barbaraann]

2. It might be a whole lot worse than VietNam.

There is an insane puppet monkey in charge.

[RedEarth]

3. Great line in the article....

"Before launching the invasion Bush argued that US officials erred in Vietnam because "we could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy and did not seem to be fighting to win".

george, perhaps you could explain....what is our mission in Iraq?...what is our exit strategy?...when will the fighting stop?....george, before you invaded Iraq, you told us our troops would be seen as liberators and greeted with flowers....george, what went wrong?