Compare And Contrast Vietnam War And Iraq War

Throughout our nation’s history with wars, there are two that are most unfavorable with its’ citizens, the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Both were aimed to stop a growing and feared threats focusing around a form of government or leadership. Interestingly enough, they both seemed to have the same consequences with the government choosing to proceed with the anger of its people. Especially how both weren’t ever declared a war, and yet our nation did exactly that. That means one of the branches does indeed run over the other two. Our citizens unified and made the establishment or government, take consideration to what they’re actually doing and face the facts. We went into both of these wars attempting to stop the spread of communism in the case of Vietnam and the spread of terrorism or Al Qaeda in Iraq. During the rise of communism, Northern Vietnam was feared to have joined with Russia and China and then taking control of country. This will result in another poor and unstable country to fall to communism for support. US decided to stop that spread, send troops to aid Southern Vietnam in their fight against the North in control of the country. The US government not knowing about Vietnam,
President Bush used the terror of weapons of mass destruction on top of Iraq being a danger to our nation’s security to launch troops into the area. His ideology was to go into Iraq on a hunch and use relevant fears to our nation into accepting this without any complete logical reasoning. Just as in the past, once people started to realize how much destruction compared to positivity that had actually came out because of the war. Our citizens rose their voices and grew unified over time, it wasn’t quick but we won in the end gaining some troops back. We unfortunately still have a number of troops in