Against Quote by Noam Chomsky

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

— George McGovern

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It…

— James Hillman

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

— Stephen Harper

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a…

— John Charles Polanyi

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

— Noam Chomsky

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

— Mohammed Aldouri

I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a…

— Stephen Hunter

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement…

— Noam Chomsky

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

— Walter Cronkite

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

— Dan Coats

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It…

— James Hillman

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon