Is Iraq War similar to the Vietnam War?

From a distant view, the last two wars that America fought against international condemnation, the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, seem to be extremely different. However, on a closer look, the wars seem essentially the same.
First let us look at the differences; the first one is obviously, the time-frame. Vietnam, a country a part of the French Indochina, was long struggling for its independence, ever since the World War I, first against the French, then against the Japanese, and then again against the French. On the contrary, Iraq did not really have to fight for its independence, which it…