{"article":{"id":103824,"heading":"Iraq is NOT Bush's Vietnam but neo-cons' Stalingrad!","author":"DLi","created":"2004-02-26 10:42:18","modified":"2004-02-26 10:42:18","last_modified":"Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:42:18","article":"

After defeating a relatively poor & second-rate military power, the fascist Warlords guiding the world's #1 military killing machine looked East with bloodthirsty & covetous eyes toward the vast oil fields. In their Imperial ambition, they figure their massive military technology & firepower will simply \"shock & awe\" their former ally, and in no time billions of barrels of oil & profits would flow unceasingly back to finance their drive toward Global Domination. Unfortunately--for the evil Warlords--the high-tech \"superpower\" got ensnarled into a protracted urban slugfest, and the local resistance slowly but surely mastered the advantages of a drawn-out war of attrition. From the apogee of an unrivaled military juggernaut, the Evil Empire soon lost the initiative & began the long slide toward retreat and debacle.

Is this the history lesson of the Summer of 1942 or the Spring of 2003? You decide.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Many progressives see the Bushwhacked Iraquagmire similar to LBJ's Vietnam. Aside from obvious geographical differences, the analogy may be too "far-fetched." Closer to home may the the comparison to Hitler's Stalingrad debacle...","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/02\/103824.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}