On the eve of the war, in a meeting I attended, Jim McDermott, Washington State's Congressional Representative from the Seventh District (which includes Seattle) said that ". . . this will turn into the same kind of quagmire as the Vietnam war. And I can see us eventually having to leave Baghdad the same way we had to leave Saigon:   frantically scrambling aboard helicopters from the roofs of buildings."

That hasn't happened yet, but so far, everything that Jim McDermott has said about this war has been right.

Don Firth