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And the big fool says to push on.|"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", '''Pete Seeger'''}} |
And the big fool says to push on.|"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", '''Pete Seeger'''}} |
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{{quote|If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam.|'''Martin Luther King'''}} |
{{quote|If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam.|'''Martin Luther King''', 1967}} |
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{{quote|We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side. |'''Daniel Ellsberg'''}} |
{{quote|We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side. |'''Daniel Ellsberg'''}} |
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{{quote|Let's "do something crazy" in Vietnam: let's get out|'''[[Paul Harvey]]''' }} |
{{quote|Let's "do something crazy" in Vietnam: let's get out|'''[[Paul Harvey]]''', 1968 }} |
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{{quote|Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to the mainland of [[Asia]] should have his head examined.|'''Douglas MacArthur''' }} |
{{quote|Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to the mainland of [[Asia]] should have his head examined.|'''Douglas MacArthur''', 1961 }} |
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{{quote|The US was and is the world's leading naval power, but fearing to offend the Soviets, failed to blockade Haiphong. A river of motions flowed through that port to be used against South Vietnam and its allies.|'''Nguyen Cao Ky'''}} |
{{quote|The US was and is the world's leading naval power, but fearing to offend the Soviets, failed to blockade Haiphong. A river of motions flowed through that port to be used against South Vietnam and its allies.|'''Nguyen Cao Ky'''}} |
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{{quote|More recently, we ([[The Extremist Was Right|the John Birch Society]]) have been emphasizing [[Senseless Waste of Human Life|the horror of wasting American lives in Vietnam]] in a stage managed exhibition carried on by Washington for the political advantage of being at war and without any will to win.|'''Robert W. Welch''' }} |
{{quote|More recently, we ([[The Extremist Was Right|the John Birch Society]]) have been emphasizing [[Senseless Waste of Human Life|the horror of wasting American lives in Vietnam]] in a stage managed exhibition carried on by Washington for the political advantage of being at war and without any will to win.|'''Robert W. Welch''', 1965 }} |
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{{quote|'''Kirk:''' Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, Much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt they could pull out. |
{{quote|'''Kirk:''' Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, Much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt they could pull out. |
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'''McCoy:''' And if the Klingons give their side even more? |
'''McCoy:''' And if the Klingons give their side even more? |
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'''Kirk:''' Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power. The trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of all, but the only one that preserves both sides.|''[[Star Trek]]'', "A Private Little War" }} |
'''Kirk:''' Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power. The trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of all, but the only one that preserves both sides.|''[[Star Trek]]'', "A Private Little War" }} |
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{{quote|You cannot defend to the death, when every week you hear from your family that they don't have enough food to eat. And you look to Saigon, the rich had food, liquor, they have money, they relax, have a good time. Why fight to the death? For Whom?|'''ARVN Marine''' }} |
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{{quote|Once upon a time, our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time, we were proud of our strength,our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.|'''Barry M. Goldwater''', 1962 }} |
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Revision as of 00:36, 6 April 2017
He fired at it [the baby] with a .45. He missed. We all laughed. He got up three or four feet closer and missed again. We laughed. Then he got up right on top and plugged him.
—Transcript of the Court Martial for the My Lai Massacre
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Private Robert Maples: Calley and Meadlo were firing at the people. They were firing into the hole. I saw Meadlo firing into the hole. —Transcript of the Court Martial for the My Lai Massacre
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Mike Wallace: So you fired something like sixty-seven shots? —Interview with Meadlo on CBS News
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'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong.
—Journalist Peter Arnett in The New York Times
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We sure liberated the hell out of this place.
—Attributed to an anonymous soldier, on a village destroyed during a firefight
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Otto: You know your problem? You don't like winners. |
Bomb the village —"Napalm Sticks to Kids" - US Army Military Cadence during the Vietnam War
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They're sending me to Vietnam. It's this whole other country.
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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.
—Ho Chi Minh
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In the final analysis, it's their war: they're the ones who have to win it or lose it.
—President John F. Kennedy
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And it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for? —"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", Country Joe and the Fish
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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
—John Kerry, addressing a U.S. Senate subcommittee in April, 1971
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How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
—North Vietnamese propaganda broadcast directed at US troops
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Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation, —"Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation", Tom Paxton
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We're waist deep in the Big Muddy —"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", Pete Seeger
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If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam.
—Martin Luther King, 1967
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We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.
—Daniel Ellsberg
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Let's "do something crazy" in Vietnam: let's get out
—Paul Harvey, 1968
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Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to the mainland of Asia should have his head examined.
—Douglas MacArthur, 1961
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The US was and is the world's leading naval power, but fearing to offend the Soviets, failed to blockade Haiphong. A river of motions flowed through that port to be used against South Vietnam and its allies.
—Nguyen Cao Ky
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More recently, we (the John Birch Society) have been emphasizing the horror of wasting American lives in Vietnam in a stage managed exhibition carried on by Washington for the political advantage of being at war and without any will to win.
—Robert W. Welch, 1965
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Kirk: Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, Much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt they could pull out. —Star Trek, "A Private Little War"
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You cannot defend to the death, when every week you hear from your family that they don't have enough food to eat. And you look to Saigon, the rich had food, liquor, they have money, they relax, have a good time. Why fight to the death? For Whom?
—ARVN Marine
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Once upon a time, our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time, we were proud of our strength,our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.
—Barry M. Goldwater, 1962
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