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I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When read more
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly read more
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen read more
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, read more
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose read more
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.
First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell read more
First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.
I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, read more
I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.
It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our read more
It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.