HRC: Vietnam War "Much" Worse Than Iraq War

In interesting comments published on Ben Smith's blog here, Hillary was asked about concerns that the 2008 democratic convention could be as chaotic and destructive as the 1968 convention. In bungled comments, she first reminds us that she was in fact still a Republican in 1968, then goes on to counter such concerns by saying that despair over the Vietnam War was greater than over the Iraq War today.

Here's the key exchange:

MARK THOMPSON: ...1968 [was a] very turbulent time. [There was] a war just as there is now. Some are afraid, they have some trepidation that the Democrats might be in a similar situation 40 years later with the convention coming and neither of you clearly in the front as of yet. Should that be a concern or should everyone just feel comfortable that everything is going to work out? Is this a healthy process or is this a process too similar to 1968?

HILLARY CLINTON: I think it’s very different. I was there in 1968. I remember that very well. I actually attended the Republican Convention as an intern through a college program. And I was there in Grant Park in Chicago during the upheaval of the 1968 Democratic Convention. That was a different time, and [the country had] an incredible sense of despair about the war in Vietnam, in many ways much greater than what we’re facing with Iraq, as tragic as Iraq is...because we had a draft, because we had millions of young men on their way, or on their way back.

Also interesting is the wildly incorrect statement that "millions of young men" were on their way to Vietnam, or on their way back. I don't think American troop strength there ever approached the multi-millions.