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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.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.