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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.

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• ‟ We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

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• ‟ If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

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• ‟ I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

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• ‟ Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

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• ‟ I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

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