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Vietnam

«Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.»
«The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...»
«The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them].»
«Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war»
Author: John Pilger | Keywords: laboratory, Vietnam
«The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.»
«The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.»
«Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.»
«Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.»
«The White House began airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected unless, of course, it's the Vietnam War.»
«We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas»

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