**_One of the finest documentaries ever made_** > _We rationalised destroying villages in order to save them. We saw America lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a Mỹ Lai, and refused to give up the image of American soldiers who hand out chocolate bars and chewing gum. We learned the meaning of free-fire zones – shoot anything that moves – and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals. We watched the United States falsification of body counts, in fact, the glorification of body counts. We listened while, month after month, we were told the back_ _of the enemy was about to break. We fought using weapons against "Oriental human beings", with quotation marks around it, we fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using, were we fighting in the European theatre. We watched while men charged up hills because a general said that hill has to be taken, and, after losing one platoon, or two platoons, they marched away to leave the hill for reoccupation by the North Vietnamese. We watched pride allow the most unimportant battles to be blown into extravaganzas, because we couldn't lose, and we couldn't retreat, and because it didn't matter how many American bodies were lost to prove that point_ - LT John Kerry (USN), Coastal Squadron 1; Addressing the United States Senate Committee on Forei…

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