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Date Posted: Mon, May 09 2005, 7:49:00
Author: Jeff Northridge
Author Host/IP: 4.246.105.102
Subject: Some Interesting Quotations
In reply to: Wayne Gregory 's message, "30 Years" on Sun, May 01 2005, 0:34:23

Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940s:
"You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win."

Ronald Reagan, interview, Fresno Bee, October 10, 1965:
"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas."

Walt W. Rostow, National Security Adviser, Dec. 1967:
"I see light at the end of the tunnel."
Note: this was just two months before the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Unidentified U.S. Army major, on decision to bomb Bentre, Vietnam, February 7, 1968:
"It became necessary to destroy the town [in order] to save it."

Richard Nixon, Oct. 1969:
"I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war."

Henry Kissinger, Oct. 1972:
"We believe that peace is at hand."

Richard Nixon in a letter to President Thieu, Jan. 1973:
"You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam."

LTC Bui Van Tung (NVA) after accepting Pres. Duong Van Minh's surrender, April 30th, 1975:
"You have nothing to fear. For the Vietnamese, there are no victors and no vanquished, only the Americans have been defeated."

Myra MacPherson, 1984:
"Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America."

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