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I have started my search on the essential question of, what are the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War, and how can peace be brought? I used Google as my search engine and typed in similarities between the Vietnam and Iraqi War and there are many websites, and opinions about this certain topic, some of which are perhaps true, and others, maybe not. I found a CNN article from 2005 in which Sen. Chuck Hagel explained the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War. Iraq and Vietnam still have more differences than similarities,he said, but "there is a parallel emerging." However, in my opinion, the longer we stay in Iraq, the more it will turn into Vietnam. For example, both were/are wars you cannot win, because you do not know who the enemy is, and the cause of us going to war, whether it was McCarthyism, stopping the spread of communism or fighting "terror"is impossible. The United States is supposedly the police of the world, but we cannot police what other countries, or people want to do. "The longer we stay in Iraq, the more similarities will start to develop,meaning essentially that we are getting more and more bogged down, taking more and more casualties, more and more heated dissension and debate in the United States," Hagel said ("Hagel: Iraq"). Even though this is only one article it was very helpful, in that it was informative and from a reliable source.

This topic has a lot of information on it and i realize now that this will not be such an easy question to do, but I am not only interested in finding out more about this topic, but i also look forward to finding the answer to my essential question of, what are the similarities between the Vietnam war and the Iraqi war, and if so how can peace be brought?

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"Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam." 19 08 2005 17 04 2008)http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/18/hagel.iraq/