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Old 10-24-2003, 02:20 PM
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Default Iraq will be harder than Vietnam, author says

Iraq will be harder than Vietnam, author says

(EXCERPT) By Chris Wetterich STAFF WRITER The war in Iraq has
parallels to the Vietnam War and presents more difficult challenges,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist David Halberstam told a
University of Charleston audience Thursday.

“This is going to be harder than Vietnam,” said Halberstam, who won a
Pulitzer for his coverage of the Vietnam War’s early days for The New
York Times. “We have bitten off a lot more than we were aware of. I
think the president is aware of that now.”

Halberstam, who was invited to lecture by the West Virginia Humanities
Council, said the factor that makes Iraq harder is that the United
States could have left Vietnam at any time. In Iraq, “we are
constrained by people who could follow us home,” he said, referring to
the terrorists who have attacked the United States.

He had doubts about going to war in the first place, saying the Bush
administration moved too quickly without enough international support,
something that has now come back to haunt the United States.

“These are all things I learned in Vietnam,” Halberstam said, saying
that voices in the administra...

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