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We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?

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.

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

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

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

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.