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William Westmoreland

"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong."

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"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong."

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

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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 last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
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"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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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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"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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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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