#vietnam wa

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all. ↗

— Mark Boal

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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

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I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. ↗

— David Cross

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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. ↗

— George McGovern

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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. ↗

— George McGovern

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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. ↗

— George McGovern

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