Vietcong Quotes

• When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Finals, Sitting

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• I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

  Tom Hayden

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• Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Believe, Europe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Powerful, Men, Broken

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• I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Criminals, Elements, Force

  "The Hell of War" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 5, 2006.

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