Ok, Guest. You don't bother to address the issue of RVN obstructionism when it came to talks with the VC and the North. Was that following Uncle Sam's orders? Wait, I think I know.

Please provide us with your long long list of assassinated RVN presidents. Messrs. Thieu and Ky took office in '67 and were still alive and kicking in 1975 when the peace-loving North blithely violated the 1973 accords and crushed the South with military force.

It's only tangential to the situation in Iraq today, but people need to learn some history before they can learn from it. Comparisons with the war in Indochina are facile and superficial at best. If civil war breaks out, and it could, it'll have little to do with conditions in Viet Nam nearly 40 years ago.