This year marks the forty-second anniversary of America's withdrawal from Vietnam. Scenes of that war are being relived as American troops proceed to fight yet another unjustified war, this time in Iraq. Iraq is turning into another calamity for the United States, as in the case with Vietnam. According to Webster's Intermediate Dictionary, calamity is defined as an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster. This essay will prove: how both wars were unjustified, the lack of public support in both cases and the fact that the United States refused to come to a peaceful compromise with each country. There are glaring similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, and connections can be drawn from nearly every facet of both wars. Through the comparison of these two wars, one can clearly see that the wars in Iraq and Vietnam share striking likenesses and that history...