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William Westmoreland

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."

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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"

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"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."

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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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"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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"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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