Martini Republic - Lead, follow, or have a drink.: "Colonel Davis is not the only one to breath the dreaded V word in connection with Iraq:

Military officials now frequently compare the fight in Anbar to the Vietnam War, saying that guerrilla fighters, who blend back into the population, are trying to break the will of the American military - rather than defeat it outright - and to erode public support for the war back home.

'If it were just killing people that would win this, it'd be easy,' said Marine Maj. Nicholas Visconti, 35, of Brookfield, Conn., who served in southern Iraq in 2003. 'But look at Vietnam. We killed millions, and they kept coming. It's a war of attrition. They're not trying to win. It's just like in Vietnam. They won a long, protracted fight that the American public did not have the stomach for. ... Killing people is not the answer; rebuilding the cities is.'

How long before concentration camp-enthusiast Michelle Malkin registers her disgust for these brave soldiers fighting in Iraq for using the dread 'V' word, the way she did when decorated and wounded veteran Hagel had the audacity to state the obvious?  Or maybe Rush Limgbaugh will call them 'pukes.' "

(Via Martini Republic.)