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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

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 United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.