George W. Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars where he yet again made a case for the Iraq invasion by equating it to major conflicts in our history.  Let us examine the grounds for his arguments:  

  

Japan simultaneously attacked and declared war on the United States of America.  Japan had already invaded and occupied much of China and was preparing to invade the Philippine Islands, Malaysia, and even Australia.  It was turned back only with Herculean effort and sacrifice at Guadalcanal and then marched relentlessly back toward greater Nippon.    

  

The occupation of Japan was planned beginning in 1942 so that when the time came the victors (mainly the United States) were able to slip smoothly from total war into occupation mode.  The Japanese are a homogenous population that has a history of respect for, and submission to, authority and power.  Douglas Macarthur understood the Japanese psych and the Emperor was wisely left in place, with certain understandings and agreements, to facilitate the occupation.  Japan had been beaten to its knees, and the Japanese understood this and accepted it as fact.  The understanding was that Japan would be restored and admitted as an independent nation in the future to the world community.  

  

When Hitler declared war on the United States of America after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he had already annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, occupied Czechoslovakia and invaded Poland.  Germany was a formidable military industrial nation with advanced weaponry and a cohesive population not at civil war with itself.  

  

The German people are culturally and religiously a homogeneous population with a history of respect for, and submission to, authority and power.  Germany had unquestionably been beaten to its knees by the allied powers, and the German population understood this and accepted it as fact.  

  

The Western allies wisely retained the infrastructure and used those Germans that made it work to improve it and move Germany back into the light of civilization.  Many if not most of these Germans were rank and file members of the Nazi party, but mostly out of necessity rather than conviction.  They were the bureaucrats and technicians that made the wheels go round.  They had nothing to do with creating or executing party doctrine, just like most Republicans or Democrats today.  This was understood and their Nazi membership was tacitly overlooked for the betterment of Germany and the success of the occupation.   

  

Vietnam was a very controversial battleground in the Cold War between Soviet Russia and the United States of America, the world's two “Super Powers”.  The public argument at the time was that North Vietnam under communist control would engulf South Vietnam, and the rest of Southeast Asia would fall like dominos.  The United States of America was urged by president Diem of South Vietnam to come in and defend South Vietnam.  The United States did not invade South Vietnam, and it bombed North Vietnam while the North Vietnam Regular Army was infiltrating into south Vietnam to assist the home grown Viet Cong.  This was a full scale, although covert, invasion of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.    

  

The Vietnamese people are largely homogenous, with pockets of subculture such as the Hmong interspersed within it.  The civil war was political as opposed to religious and cultural.

 

Historical hindsight suggests strongly that the United States was chased out of Vietnam because the war was in reality a civil war where the North wanted the country to be reunited as a sovereign nation, whereas the United States was trying to maintain the status quo to halt what seemed to be an inexorable expansion of the Communist doctrine.    

   

Saddam Hussein never declared war on the United States of America.  Iraq is anything but a Super Power competing with the United States.  Saddam Hussein was holed up in Iraq, under embargo, with no-fly zones enforced on parts of his country.  He was in no position to invade anyone.  Iraq did not occupy any country.  Iraq is in reality at least three separate and distinct religious-cultural countries with centuries of animosity and bloodshed between them.  Saddam Hussein held the country together through the Bathist party.  We disbanded the party and the military, and killed Saddam Hussein.  With no defense of this terrible despot, it can be argued that Iraq is an artificial entity created by the British and held together only by force.  The infrastructure was dismantled without thought or planning.   

   

The civil war that has ensued was a certainty given the lack of understanding and preparation by our "leadership".  Unlike the Vietnam civil war, which was political and imposed largely from outside by the Super Powers using the North and the South as surrogate adversaries, the Iraq civil war is cultural and religious and has its roots buried deep in the antiquity of the region.  This difference is critical.

      

There was no planning for occupation and restoration of control to the Iraqis.  Oilraq is meant to be a Satrapy for the Bush Regime and the International Corporate Cartel (ICC), with no real intention of restoring the nation and admitting it as an independent nation to the world community.  

  

George W. Bush insults the intelligence of any rational American, as well as that of most of the world’s population.   He cannot become history himself fast enough.