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"By the time it was all said and done, I spent almost $200,000 on my college education. By the time it was all said and done, the U. S. government spent $2,435.98 on my ceramic body armor, Kevlar helmet, and flak jacket. As the cadence says, 'I love working for Uncle Sam/Lets me know just who I am.' It also lets me know what I think I'm worth and what they think I'm worth."
- a 25-year-old USMC 1st Lt., Camp Fallujah, Iraq
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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