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At the turn of the century (1900)
the immense majority of Germans were
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and aggressive nationalism.-- Ludwig von Mises
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http://msnbc.com/news/982193.asp?0cv=CB20

Bush's News War

Fed up with the gloom-and-doom coverage of the conflict, the White House is
taking aim at the press

By Richard Wolffe and Rod Nordland
NEWSWEEK

Oct. 27 issue - It started out as a little crowd control in Baghdad. But as
U.S. troops entered the streets to restore order earlier this month, the
protest turned ugly. (snipped)

All American soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq are tragic and saddening. But the anti-
American "liberal" elites who try to make the situation look like another Vietnam are simply pissing
in the wind.

First of all the U.S. conquered Iraq very quickly and easily,
although there is still sporadic conflict. It had no such luck in Vietnam.
In almost seven months of combat in Iraq the US has suffered only 300 killed and
occupied only a Saigon and a few bases.

In Vietnam, an invasion started by the Democrats; there were about 58,000 KIA over nine years.
But for many months at a time during that war, the US was losing over 250 KIA a week.
In the Korean War, another conflict that began under the Democrats' watch, over 55,000
were killed in less than four years. So there is a huge contrast between Korea and Vietnam
on the one hand, and Afghanistan on the other. What the US. military has done in Afghanistan
is truly remarkable when compared to the humiliating defeat the Soviets suffered there in the 1980s.

This is not to imply that the interventions of the US in Korea and Vietnam were futile and utter
failures. They were not, as they contributed to the defeat of communism in Southeast Asia and
the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.