Delusion Quote by David Means

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's…

— Donald Sutherland

For many Americans, 'Vietnam' is a word associated with war and the extraordinarily complex history between our countries. But since normalization began, the U.S.…

— Ben Rhodes

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the…

— Jean Baudrillard

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted…

— Dan Quayle

“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth…

— Trin Yarborough

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— Wendell Berry

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

— Doug Rice

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

— Alexander Haig