Fun facts

By April 30, 1969, the US had 543,400 military personnel in South Vietnam.

Vietnam, as a whole, is slightly larger than New Mexico, so we can assume that South Vietnam was half the size of New Mexico. Iraq, on the other hand, is comparable in size to California.

During the run up to war, the Bush administration constantly denied that we would need a massive amount of troops to led a successful military operation in Iraq.

At the height of the Vietnam War, we had 543,400 deployed to an area half the size of New Mexico and still lost. That being the case, didn't the Bush administration mislead the American public when it told us they only needed 100,000+ troops to secure an area nearly the size of California?

Those are the facts. Like it or not, for any Bush fans reading this, that's about as non-partisan as it gets.

[05:38 update: Grammar corrections.]