iraq as the new viet nam...

ok, so last night we got together with some book club people and watched the quiet american, starring michael cain and brendan fraiser.......a chilling tale of american duplicity in the years leading up to the viet nam war......one of our group mentioned a quote that npr had recently featured....by ho chi min (sp)........he was asked how he thought that he could beat the best army on earth....he replied.......they will kill many of us....we will kill some of them......and they will tire of it first.............i have pondered this quote today as i read of still more u.s. casualities.....yes, we will tire of it first when the cause is not just.......at princeton, yale, and harvard, we saw entire rooms filled with the names of war dead...cicvil war....wwI and wwII....korea.........the lists of names got really lean when the viet nam war was remembered........an unjust war that few were willing to die for....................the politics of iraq, the factions are so intractable that we were complete fools to think that we could just bring in democracy and think it would 'take', like fabric takes dye................we need gwbush to fade into the sunset this november............