William Westmoreland quotes
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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
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“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
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“I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.”
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“In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.”
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“Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.”
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“The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.”
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“This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.”
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“I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.”
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“I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.”
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“We'll blast them back into the stone ages!”
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“Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.”
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“The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.”
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“Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.”
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“They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.”
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“My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had”
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“When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail”
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“It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.”
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“I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.”
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“By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?”
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“I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .”
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“We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.”
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“As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.”
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“President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.”
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“The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.”
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“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.”
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“Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.”
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“I don't take criticism lying down.”
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