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  • We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong. -- William Westmoreland
  • It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation. -- William Westmoreland
  • Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. -- Thomas Steinbeck
  • Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. -- Daniel Keys Moran
  • I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong, -- Muhammad Ali
  • The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera, -- Eddie Adams
  • I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen. -- Hal Moore
  • I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats? -- James Morcan
  • Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But today the retired four-star general capitulated to the fiercest enemy he's ever confronted: the American voter. -- Jon Stewart
  • The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong. -- Argus Hamilton
  • We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity. -- Anne Waldman
  • I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong. -- Rob Cantrell
  • My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that. -- Roger Hilsman
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