Compliments of Hanoi Jane, the one so misunderstood...
"These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed."
"Never in the history of the United States have POWs come home looking like football players. These football players are no more heroes than Custer was. They're military careerists and professional killers who are "trying to make themselves look self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to law."
"(the POWs) assured me they were in good health. When I asked them if they were brainwashed, they all laughed. Without exception, they expressed shame at what they had done."
"My Lai (when civilians were murdered) was not an isolated incident but rather a way of life for many of our military."
And of course, John Kerry and his 'support':
During a campaign stop for Democrat Phil Angelides on October 30, 2006:
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Source: Fox News
On Iraq:
There is no reason... that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
Source: TheReidWorld.com
Testifying before Congress in 1971:
"They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. "
On NBC's Meet The Press in 1971:
"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 caliber machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages."
From his book The New Soldier:
We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars -- in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize that which was base and grim."
Source: WinterSoldier.com
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