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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

— Walter Cronkite

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

— George McGovern

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

— Samantha Power

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

— Mort Walker

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

— Neil Sheehan

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

— Robert Vaughn

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.

— Donald Sutherland

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

— Tracy Kidder

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

— Robert Jay Lifton

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.

— J. William Fulbright

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

— Daniel Ellsberg

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