Haig says U.S. repeating Vietnam mistake. Former Nixon adviser thinks forces in Iraq hamstrung by politicians.

"The conference brought together advisers from the Nixon, Johnson and Kennedy administrations, and talk turned to Iraq where the panelists saw parallels with Vietnam."

(Kissinger) “We have a jihadist radical situation,” he said. “If the U.S. fails in Iraq, then the consequences will be that it motivates more to move toward the radical side. This is the challenge.”

"Former Johnson adviser Jack Valenti said that the lessons of Vietnam have been “forgotten or ignored” in Iraq.

“No president can win a war when public support for that war begins to decline and evaporate,” he said.

"Valenti, former head of the Motion Picture Association, added there was no such thing as a good war, saying “all wars are inhumane, brutal, callous and full of depravity.”

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