Vietnam Quotes - Page 21

• In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.

  Jon Stewart

  Iraq, Support, Effort

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• The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Size, Portions

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• I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Fighting, Troops

  "Opinion A new Republican archetype" by Charles Pierce, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

  Noam Chomsky

  Syndromes, Fabrication

  Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2004.

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• It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

  Frederick Forsyth

  War, Russia, Rights

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• The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

  John Lennon

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Choices, Goes On

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, War, Movement

  "Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, United States, Warfare

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• It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of thinking about my life. It showed me that things can disappear like the snap of your fingers. As a young guy you thought you were invincible and nothing could ever hurt you, and stuff like that, and living life to the fullest.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Hurt, Live Life, Thinking

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• We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.

  Bui Diem

  Country, Independence, Trying

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• You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Ends, Protect, Protect Yourself

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• Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Lying, Whole

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• A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Crazy, Has Beens

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• [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

  Ernest Hemingway

  Good Friend, Brave, Luck

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• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Soldier, Firsts

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• The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

  John F. Kerry

  White, Race, House

  "Monetary Dean-ominations". www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

  John F. Kerry

  Simple, Emotional, Needs

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• We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Killing, Communism

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• Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, "College Tour", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.

  Jello Biafra

  Children, War, School

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Lasts, Blast, Watergate

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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