Greg Mitchell: The Day Iraq Became Vietnam
Submitted: Mar 31, 2008 - Coming when it did -- exactly five years ago -- the photograph seemed like a cruel joke, or a Photoshop prank, just as nearly everyone in America (except perhaps a few Fox News commentators) was awakening to the bone-chilling reality of a quick war that was threatening to turn into a longer slog. And there, splashed across a spread in The New York Times, during the second week of the invasion of…

