This page lists articles featured on HNN that employ analogies to advance an argument concerning the situation in Iraq. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order. Click here to read HNN blogger Tim Burke's Rules for Historical Analogies.

"I spent two years in Vietnam, and I've seen this movie before."--Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni

• Reidar Visser: Iraq is not Yugoslovaia

• Tom Engelhardt: Empire of Stupidity

• Matthew Continetti: Liberals Complain ... Hands Off My Analogy

• Yet more historians comment on Bush's Vietnam analogy

• Andrew Bacevich: Vietnam's real lessons

• Robert Buzzanco: Bush is wrong on history

• Joseph A. Palermo: History Through a Bush

• NYT: This War Is Not Like the Others — or Is It?

• NYT News Analysis: Historians Question Bush’s Reading of Lessons of Vietnam War for Iraq

• Chicago Tribune: More historians dismiss Bush's Vietnam analogy

• Jim Hoagland: Bush's Vietnam Blunder

• John Pilger: The Friends of Pol Pot

• Time Mag.: Bush's Risky Vietnam Gambit

• Max Boot: President Bush's analogy to Iraq is not inaccurate, just incomplete

• Matthew Rothschild: Bush Rewrites History of Vietnam War

• Matthew Yglesias: Why is George Bush suddenly making parallels between Iraq and Vietnam? Because he’s preparing to shift the blame for another disaster.

• Jamie Glazov, David Kaiser, Stephen J. Morris, Michael Rubin: Can Vietnam Teach Lessons Useful in Iraq? A Symposium

• William Schroeder: What President Bush Didn't Mention: The Misery Our Staying in Vietnam Caused

• Mark Moyar: The Vietnam history you haven't heard

• HNN Poll: Bush Compares Vietnam and Iraq ... Is He Right?

• John Paul Rossi: Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

• Steve Conn: Iraq Isn't Vietnam ... It's Cambodia

• Billmon Blog: Philadelphia on the Tigris

• Joseph Ellis: Baghdad's Foundering Fathers

• Juan Cole: Why Iraq Isn't Malaysia

• Timothy Garton Ash: Iraq Is America's Boer War

• Tom Engelhardt: Those Persistent Vietnam Echoes

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Iraq's Election Was a Lot More Meaningful than Vietnam's in 1967

• U.S. Army War College: Comparing Iraq and Vietnam

• Tom Engelhardt: It's Bush Administration Officials Who Are Drawing the Vietnam Parallels Now

• William Marina: Torture & Civilian Deaths in Three Counterinsurgencies

• We Seem to Be Following in the Footsteps of the British in Iraq

• David Greenberg: Why Vietnam Haunts the Debate Over Iraq

• After Tet Polls also Showed Americans Wanted to Send More Troops

• U.S. Risks Repeating Britain's 1920 Mistakes in Iraq

• History Seems to Offer No Lessons for America

• The Last Time the U.S. Faced Losses Like this Was in Nam

• Fran Shor: Historical Analogies: Iraq is to Vietnam is to…

• Niall Ferguson: Don't Think Vietnam, Think Iraq Under British Rule

• William Greider: Iraq as Vietnam

• Juan Cole: President Bush's Incoherent News Conference (On the usefulness of analogies in democratic societies.)

• Frank Rich: It's 1920's Iraq All Over Again

• Tom Engelhardt: Yes, Vietnam Echoes Are Loud and Clear

• J. Sean Curtin: Japanese Feel that Iraq Is Like Lebanon

• Paul Krugman: The Lies About Iraq Bring Back Memories of Vietnam

• James Bennet: Why Iraq Feels Like Lebanon

• Charles Krauthammer: Not Vietnam, Not Tet

• Christopher Hitchens: Not Vietnam, Not Lebanon

• It's Reconstruction in the South After the Civil War

• Stephen Schwartz: This Isn't Vietnam and It Isn't Tet

• Gil Troy: Germany Wasn't Rebuilt in a Year, Nor Shall Iraq

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