What do troops in Iraq do for sex?  I mean in Vietnam there was prostitutes in Saigon, what about Iraqis?
441034
They rape women. I know its not what people want to hear these days, but its the truth.\n\n\npeace
568954
Again, as in Vietnam, the US has betrayed its self with this unjustitied and criminal invasion/occupation.   The resistance to foreign forces is only going to strengthen over time and what is the US going to do about it.  With waining support its only a matter to time before Iraq solves this problem its own way.  \n\nWhat is driving this war here is an unwillingness to face realities on the part of our leadership.  As in Vietnam, its the American people who will put a stop to our mission in Iraq.  We are not at that point yet.  I can't guess when it will happen, but at some point our leadership will be compelled to start withdrawing forces.
1102279
I was married to a Marine...after any major deployment all you had to do was go to a bar or club, to see all the wives that were crying as the bus left, with another Marine to keep her company.  It is a HUGE problem.
352993
Marines are killed everyday in Iraq. (71 so far in April 06 ) They wanted this war but now they are getting their ass kicked all over the place. Three years ago the Marines were yelling "Bring it On". Now they are begging "Bring me Home". The Marines discovered bullets don't bounce off their chests. We all know the USA military will eat crap and lose the war.
641364
good lord k9 when will you learn. they had the same thing in vietnam chay lei or something like that. before you assume our marines slaughtered in cold blood, try something different GET THE FUCKING FACTS. \nINNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY
1018552
I was in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.  It was bleak.  After the war ended, many, many, many families were left homeless.  We had hundreds of Iraqi soldiers surrendering to us every day, just to get some food.  We helped many Iraqi families flee from Iraq into Saudi Arabia.  The skies black from all of the oil fields burning in neighboring Kuwait.  I lost a good friend there.
145204
During the Vietnam War there were approximately 6 to 7 people behind the lines for each infantry soldier dodging bullets. Statistically, if you have any type of experience in any line of work, it gives you an edge over someone fresh out of high school.\n\nHere are just some of the jobs away from the front lines:\n \n1) Quartermaster: provides supplies of all types and materials to eveyone else\n\n2) Motorpool: provides vehicles and vehicle maintenence - good area for those with mechanical aptitude.\n\n3) Food service: provides meals to all enlisted and officer personnel in "mess" halls. Often involves working weird shifts, starting around midnight and ending mid morning in some cases, but you're free when everyone else is working.\n\n4) Clerical support: nothing happens unless it is on paper -these guys publish the orders that send others to specific duty posts, maintain rosters and create correspondence. Computer literacy and experience with word processing is helpful here.\n\n5) Personnel / Human Resources - they keep the records on everyone who is on active duty in their immediate area.\n\n6) Engineers - they construct housing and other related buildings that the troops use, as well as build / repair roads. Carpentry / construction trades are good backgrounds for this area. May not be a good job in Iraq due to IEDs.\n\n7) Intelligence - interpreting photos of combat areas to track movement of people and materials. Requires a lot of training and possibly recommendation from your local congressman, if you express a desire to do this. Good grades and a burning desire are helpful.\n\n8) Instruction - you teach others how to do a particular task, but you have to know it inside and out yourself before you go there. \n\n9) Entertainment - believe it or not, there are guys and gals in the military who play musical instruments and perform during special events (parades, speeches, etc).\n\n10) Information Technology - these guys keep the computers running, among other things.\n\n11) Security - Military Police (MPs) are still with us - also prison guards and other related tasks.\n\n12) Transportation - if you have a special license to drive a truck or some other heavy vehicle, that could land you here. Bad news if sent to Iraq - IEDs again.\n\nIf you can think of a job in civilian life, there is probably an equivalent for it in the military.\n\nAlso - foreign languages - if you can speak one or more, you may have an edge. Consider learning a language that the military values highly.\n\nLastly - if you opt to enlist, you will be tested to see what you are good at. The results will tend to steer you in a particular direction. Eventually you will be assigned an "MOS" or Military Occupation Specialty designation. \n\nA word of caution: what the military promises you and what they eventually deliver can be two different things. Many enlisted guys can't wait to get out because they got double crossed. They were promised a desk job or something related but ended up carrying a rifle. \n\nThis is not civilian life, with the option to threaten a lawsuit for breach of contract. What the military assigns you swallow. Remember - if every guy who went into the military got what he wanted, only a handful of guys would be carrying rifles. \n\nKey take away message - bait and switch. The "bait" is a promise of something you want - the switch comes after you're inside and the door closes behind you. You have to fight and fight hard for what you really want. He who fails to plan gets planned upon.
85277
Didn't the court martial of Lt. Calley for the My Lai massacre of women and children count for anything.  It prepared the present day commanders in Desert Storm to state to their troops "no My Lais--you hear?"  I say, we learned from history and will try to be as civilized in war as much as possible.  Troops in combat will always behave savagely in the heat of the moment, who are we to judge sitting in our comfortable living rooms, not knowing what they're go thru.  I won't judge them, but pray that we're not as inhumane as the enemy.
818101
I think i know what you went through!..I spent 7 years in the Australian army, and did 3 tours to Vietnam!..Where i was then blown up 4 times by the Americans!..{mind you, they didn't discriminate, they blew each other up as well!}..But after 'demob' i found civilian life very difficult to fit back into!..I survived by going to university and getting a degree in Geology!..But i still found it hard to tolerate the odd thinking of civilians, did you notice that you didn't seem to fit in?..I wonder if this was just paranoia or what?..Many Vietvets just didn't handle it at all!..a lot went "bush" many commit ed suicide, others went insane!.Moving from one world into another so suddenly has to have some sort of effect on the unprepared mind, and i bet you were never prepared by the Army for it were you?.
861271
They won't wait and there will be a terrible bloodbath. Remember Vietnam? The liberals then whined, cried, rioted and stamped their feet and got us out of Nam. What followed was a nasty bloodbath. Didn't hear a peep out of them when the bodies started piling up. Don't bother listening when they pull the troops out of Iraq and the killing starts. They will turn their heads again and pretend it isn't happening.
585438
Interview a couple of veterans.  I was six or seven years old when hostilities started, but was involved in the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.\n  Go to Google.\n  Go to your local library.\n  Keep an open mind and realize that there are no truly unbiased opinions.  It was a war.  Don't let anybody white-wash it or demean those of us who went over there by referring to it as a 'conflict'.
721087
Vietnam had effectively been turned into two countries, like North and South Korea.  The war was North Vietnam seeking to conquer the South and reunite the country by force.  The fighting in Iraq is nothing like that.  In Iraq, a few terrorists and religious zealots are trying to prevent Iraq from becoming a democracy.  They are funded and supplied from the surrounding countries (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia), but no other country is trying to conquer Iraq.\n\nIn Vietnam, we were actually fighting another country, North Vietnam.  That is not true in Iraq.\n\nAlthough it was an integral part of the Cold War, the Vietnam War was an actual war unto itself.  The fighting in Iraq is a part of the War on Terror (stupid name, it should be the War on Islamofascism) but is not really a war by itself.  At least not any more.  Iraq fell within three weeks of our invasion.  The currant Iraqi government is our ally.  The fighting is the US-led coalition and Iraq against the terrorists.\n\nUS fatalities in Vietnam were at about 10 times the rate of fatalities in Iraq.  As wars go, the US fatalities in Vietnam were quite low; US fatalities in Iraq are minuscule.\n\nIts not quite true to say there was no coalition in Vietnam.  The South Vietnamese and the Aussies fought there with us, as did the South Koreans.  The French, of course, bugged out.\n\nThe US force in Iraq hovers between 120,000 and 150,000; the force in Vietnam peaked at over 500,000.\n\nDemocrats supported the war in Vietnam while there was a Democratic President, and turned against it when a Republican was elected.  We will see if their principles are just as flexible now if a Democrat wins in 2008.
102675
Refer to Vietnam.  :D
824374
if you wanna keep your a*s virgin... be very worried!!\nthese USA Military types get very bored sometimes and if there are in fact no sutiable civilians to rape ... they for sure 'give' it to the new boys.. its worse than prisoners....
335412
Thats a loaded question ;) \n\nI think that we now must stay and finish the reconstruction and occupation of Iraq to avoid a messy withdrawl that will lead to a power vacuum and civil war in the heart of the middle east. Regardless of how you feel about the war before hand, It's important to realize that a US defeat or withdrawl could have dramatic and long lasting negative effects on the US.\n\nThe Vietnam comparison doesn't hold too much water for two reasons, 1) The US withdrawl from South Vietnam was followed by the North overruning the South. This prevented a power struggle or civil war and was, ironically, able to provide some order to a chaotic situation. 2) A large component of the insurgency (An estimated 1/3 ) is now Al Qaeda, I'm not saying that they were there before I'm simply saying they are there now and are working to force an American withdrawl. They even boast about this on propoganda tapes. They are, unlike the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, an organization that is actively at war with the United States (was before the war in Iraq and will be after) and would like nothing better then to send a middle eastern nation into chaos so they can use it as a place to retrain, refurbish and catch their breath after losing a similiar base in Afghanistan that they had before the Taliban lost power.\n\nI personally think we need to establish a table for leaving Iraq based not on chronological deadlines (a poor plan that is inviting disaster the moment the deadline passes and US Troops leave) but instead on tangible results. Like for every 3 Iraqi Army Battalions to reach full operational ability we should withdrawl 1 US Battalion. \n\nThis avoids the dilemna of just saying "lets stay until we're through" which opens the door to a endless occupation but also makes success in Iraq a tangible thing that can be monitored and achieved in due time.
1117858
yeah go toot that horn somewhere else. Do you not know all the lies that Bush told to send our young men to war? What I say is why don't they stay out of peoples bedrooms and take care of the boardroom. Who gives a shit if Clinton got a little on the side and lied. do you know a man who has cheated who admitted it from the start? Not! Maybe if Bush would get a little on the side his mind wouldn't be so full of shit he might be able to speak in complete intelligible sentences. I would much rather have a lie about sex than a lie about lives.
482117
Lots of Mexican Heritage guys have died in Iraq! Does that answer your question? A better question would have been...Why have any of our troops died in Iraq! What the hell are we doing in Iraq?