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Vietnam Quotes

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars Picture Quote #1

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline Picture Quote #1

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it’s China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam Picture Quote #1

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there’s no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We’re proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren’t frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted Picture Quote #1

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I’ve never said that, but, you know, I’m getting to an age where I think I’d better start saying it... And I don’t mean that to sound that I’m being critical of somebody or blaming somebody Picture Quote #1

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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam Picture Quote #1

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands Picture Quote #1

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense Picture Quote #1

My view of Bradley Manning is that he’s a very courageous young man who... did what I didn’t have the guts to do during the Vietnam war Picture Quote #1

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case Picture Quote #1

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it’s different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize Picture Quote #1

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One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush’s foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam Picture Quote #1

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there Picture Quote #1

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking Picture Quote #1

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years Picture Quote #1

Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria Picture Quote #1

Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen Picture Quote #1

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Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood Picture Quote #1

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism Picture Quote #1

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up Picture Quote #1

The Marines in Korea never feared ‘friendly fire’ or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted Picture Quote #1

Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism Picture Quote #1

There are several places in Vietnam where they’re teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don’t have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program Picture Quote #1

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Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? Picture Quote #1

The genius of America’s endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible Picture Quote #1

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead Picture Quote #1

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War Picture Quote #1

That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War Picture Quote #1

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare Picture Quote #1

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Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. (Vietnam Quotes) Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline (Vietnam Quotes) [People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it’s China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam. (Vietnam Quotes) Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there’s no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We’re proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren’t frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted. (Vietnam Quotes) I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam. (Vietnam Quotes) I wasn’t happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I’ve never said that, but, you know, I’m getting to an age where I think I’d better start saying it... And I don’t mean that to sound that I’m being critical of somebody or blaming somebody. (Vietnam Quotes) Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. (Vietnam Quotes) McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands (Vietnam Quotes) In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense. (Vietnam Quotes) My view of Bradley Manning is that he’s a very courageous young man who... did what I didn’t have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. (Vietnam Quotes) I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. (Vietnam Quotes) When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it’s different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize. (Vietnam Quotes) One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush’s foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam. (Vietnam Quotes) I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. (Vietnam Quotes) We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking. (Vietnam Quotes) In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. (Vietnam Quotes) Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria. (Vietnam Quotes) Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen. (Vietnam Quotes) Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood. (Vietnam Quotes) The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism. (Vietnam Quotes) America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up. (Vietnam Quotes) The Marines in Korea never feared ‘friendly fire’ or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. (Vietnam Quotes) Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism. (Vietnam Quotes) There are several places in Vietnam where they’re teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don’t have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program. (Vietnam Quotes) Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? (Vietnam Quotes) The genius of America’s endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. (Vietnam Quotes) You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. (Vietnam Quotes) I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. (Vietnam Quotes) That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War. (Vietnam Quotes) Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. (Vietnam Quotes)

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