how many people died in the vietnam war. with some precision it is just over fifty eight thousand each with his or her name engraved on the vietnam memorial in washington d.c. but how many of you to me not to mention. died but the. good news probably no one. in one thousand nine hundred five vietnam released a figure of food a million civilians and one million combatants killed nobody has officially challenge those figures. however robert mcnamara the longest serving us secretary of defense has established a much more. before the vietnam war was considered nixon's war or johnson's when it was considered mcnamara's war and before vietnam mcnamara was considered a bomb damage a fish and sea expert war two and a top advisor to the twenty nine bomber force commander. did his position in training qualify mcnamara to know the true number of vietnamese killed in the war. were the vietnamese released their tally of five million soldiers mcnamara paid a visit to vietnam while he was there he gave them his numbers. do you mean to say

year of the vietnamese released their tally of five million soldiers mcnamara paid a visit to vietnam while he was there he gave them his numbers. do you mean to say it was not a tragedy for you. when you lost three million four hundred thousand to be timmy's killed which on our population bases the equivalent of twenty seven million americans what did you accomplish since it was their country their towns and villages and the lives of their men women and children it is so only for the vietnamese to determine if their independence is worth the price the us exact. had struggled for their independence for two thousand years before it was finally won in one thousand nine hundred seventy five for a thousand years it was directly rule and occupied by china and even though it regained formal autonomy and nine thirty nine. remained a tribute to its chinese neighbor to the north in the nineteenth century the europeans. empire of france conquered vietnam and along with laos and cambodia called it french indochina and made it one of their colonial possession. at the geneva conference the it was

was the us man in vietnam and what had the french war was quietly becoming the american war. there was sort of a cult of the little fellow in the sharkskin suit and a little mandarin who's going to stop the reds and there was a great many articles on this on the notion of the go to jim our man inside on. then as now the danger was greatly hyped to drive the country towards war. with digital. it was something. they recreate from united states from vietnam would be a communist that great but it free of massive proportions and would lead to world war three. and promises were made to puppets. we'll stay for as long as it takes. which will provide whatever help is required. to win the battle against the communist and sergeant while both the democrat and republican administrations that preceded him had provided funding for the fight against vietnamese independence john kennedy was the first president to send us troops to vietnam in significant numbers he started by replacing the french berets with green berets and had sent more than sixteen thousand soldiers by the time he was assa

good news probably no one would know for certain in one thousand nine hundred five vietnam released a figure of food million civilians and one million combatants killed nobody has officially challenge those figures. however robert mcnamara the longest serving us secretary of defense has established a much more. before the vietnam war was considered nixon's war or johnson's when it was considered mcnamara's war and before vietnam mcnamara was considered a bomb damage or fish and sea expert during world war two and a top advisor to b. twenty nine bomber force commander curtis lemay did his position in training qualify mcnamara to know the true number of the it the me skilled in the war. the senior the vietnamese released their tally of five million souls mcnamara paid a visit to vietnam while he was there he gave them his numbers. do you mean to say it was not a tragedy for you. when you lost three million four hundred thousand to be timmy's killed which on our population bases the equivalent of twenty seven million americans what did you accomplish since it was their country their town

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from when i arrived in vietnam in february of one thousand and seventy. there was a really a great deal of destruction. we were taken out on missions mainly by helicopter our missions were called search and destroy we would try to search out the enemy and destroy the enemy in the kuchi area there were in numerable tunnels and usually we would try to blow these tunnels up with c. four explosives. and we seldom saw the enemy we tried to destroy the earth that concealed and sustained the enemy i often wonder if our struggle is not against human beings but against the earth that sustains them. we've become experts in blowing the earth using bonds artillery mortars c. four gunships napalm to reduce the earth to ashes. you know in the history of wife on earth there been five moments. in which there's been a major spasm of extinction and the best known is when the dinosaurs left the stage as it were we are now clearly in the first stages of a potential sixth spasm of extinction in the human footprint on nature it's it's just quite and you can see the increase gr

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the war in vietnam exceedingly unpopular. the democratic national committee, unable to function with rill little or no money. >> i was a loser. i was 20 points behind in the polls. politicians were leaving me like he was a contagious disease. >> humphrey really suffered from that sense that things were out of control and he was in the administration that had lost control, and when it came to the issue of vietnam, he didn't have control of that. >> absolutely intense, awful pressure. there never was a day when you could relax. >> not war! not war! not war! not war! not war! not war! >> i believe that the republican candidate -- i believe the republican candidate owes it to the people to come out of the shadows. >> not war. not war. >> if you one time had human excrement thrown at you by a protester, it makes every other protester a key enemy. >> how badly was he defeated in 1968 by richard nixon? >> well, he lost by one half of 1% of the popular vote but he lost the alectoral election by more because he had certain areas that

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curtis lemay's scenario was once we start bombing north vietnam, north vietnam would try to retaliate by bombing, they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that well so they would call upon there chinese allies and the chinese would supply them pilots and aircraft to be used to bomb saigon. this would enable curtis lemay to retaliate against china and take out its developing nuclear capacity. the war game was a disaster. red team retaliated in a very astute way. did not retaliate militarily. it retaliated psychologically and the impact of bombing not only works minimally in terms of military context the worked very badly in terms of world opinion of what we were doing. and curtis lemay grew furious at the final session of the war game and leaned forward and yelled at general bose wheeler who was head of the red team and said you know if firebomb your country you're going to bomb mind. and wheeler said i know that is what you want me to do and that is the last thing in the world i will do. than what they said as he said many times we can bomb those people back into the stone age in 1

the government of vietnam, south vietnam water land and people to maintain their sovereignty. and so if that's the case, it was, been the focus of the north vietnamese its primary focus is always on the delta. the delta is a flat bit of land where we were covered with rice, water everywhere. you could walk 400 yards without crossing a stream. inundated completely. in 1965 the government of south did not do things are going bad in the delta. the north are taking our rice crop. we want an american unit there. that was approved by the government. they said with two simulations. one, you have to locate these unit deep into the territory and has to be on the water. on the water because they had heard the french a great results and they want of river operations. so in 1966, the first of february, the ninth division was formed. one year later they came to vietnam. at the same time it was formed the u.s. navy was told to come up with the river to reinforce. so the 9th division close in vietnam in the first if ever, 1967, one year to the day they were located at barakat, bearcat cat wa

the war in vietnam was always about land and people. the north vietnamese and all of their papers say we want to have land. the government of if and south vietnam wanted people to maintain sovereignty. if that was the case, there was the focus of the north vietnamese the primary focus was on the delta up. that is a flat bit of land where we were covered with rice and water everywhere you could not walk 400 yards and inundated completely. 1965 the government said things are going bad in the delta up. we one to an american unit there. that was approved by the government and said we have to stipulations. you have to locate the unit deepen vietcong territory and it has to be on the water because they heard the french had a great results with the river operations. some 1966 the ninth division was formed under general george eckhardt and one year later came to vietnam at the same time the u.s. navy came up the river. the ninth division closes vietnam's february 1st 1967 they are located at barakat which was 15 miles east of saigon they were l

war which the vietnam movies call the american war. there is a clash there was a clash between very highly technological society in a largely agrarian society. i think we had a lot of arrogance we thought we were going to go in and take control blow up what we needed to blow up and do basically what we wanted. one of the main reasons that i refused to carry a weapon was that i could not see any justification for the destruction of the land at the level that i saw in infantry platoon. was mainly moved from place to place by helicopter the helicopters would fly high so as not to draw ground fire and when you're at a high altitude you can look out on the land in see it for miles and miles and miles in the kuchi area especially there were times in places where i would look out and see nothing but a ravenous landscape bomb craters one after the other so close together and you see little islands of green that had not been bombed. i grew up in a small town in illinois. town surrounded by corn fields and fields very beautiful town along the il

march, i had been sent to -- [inaudible] for a fortnight to evacuate the wounded of the south of vietnam when i learned of the terrible attack launched on dien bien phu. several planes were destroyed on the ground before they could take off. miraculously, two flight nurses managed to evacuate injured soldiers. i was very sad to be far from the battlefield. the first attack was directed on -- [inaudible] to my southwest of the central position. terribly intense. each supporting position followed fiercely, but -- [inaudible] from the french position. in the trenches they are ten times greater in number and -- [inaudible] in a few hours the shelters exploded under enemy fire. by early morning there were practically no able-bodied officer. [inaudible] a shell landed in the middle of the central position. it fell on the shelter of the commander of the foreign legion. and the dien bien phu lost a precious leader. around 5 p.m. an enemy rebarrage started against gabrielle. after the -- [inaudible] of the ground assault at 8 to 1, the -- [inaudible] despite attack. it could -- [inaudible] the co

star long as the adventures like vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction to. the world's cammy spending somewhere around two trillion us tiles on the floor and preparations for war and this enormous to fish for a fraction of that a man we could have paid more to sanitation education good health care for everybody on the planet that's a terrible to vacation for so since. any war that takes place on the matter how large or how small has enormous costs to it we're talking in lebanon to the billions of dollars of cleaning up just a fifteen day war let alone you know the years and years of warfare in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam or wherever else they may take place so the costs of war really. if they're well understood and in most cases they're not but if they're well understood should preclude the war to begin with the war is not worth the cost in terms of lives but also long term environmental and public health damage for decades to come. just so surely sympatico a problem in this time a concern at that climate change just fine example i

, and vietnam was increasingly becoming a major political factor in the country. it had not then when i first ran in 62 but by then i suppose it was 64, 66 -- 65. >> mabey 66. >> so president johnson was getting complaints that members of congress didn't feel they were being informed about the war. >> however the hid said such a thing. >> he invited the members of congress to the white house and we all went down, at least a large number, 150 of us coming and it was winter as i recall. the invitation came late and we went in and it is nothing for young congressman to be sitting in the white house getting briefed by the president and vice president just back from vietnam, and he would humphrey started to give the briefing and lyndon johnson was commander in chief and he was bigger than life. he would pop up every time someone would say something and the answer the question and hubert would just about be ready to answer and stop and lyndon johnson would take over. >> that's pretty much the way it usually works. >> johnson was talking about the things he was doing to

they're not mobilizing the way people were mobilized against the vietnam war. i think for some fairly clear reasons, not just the draft, which is always used as the explanation for why -- i always thought and i argue in the book that's not a very good explanation for why there is not a stronger antiwar movement today. .. >> the antiwar movement in the vietnam era proved out of two decades of the most sensational economic growth anybody had ever seen, which raised expectations across the board and made young people in particular believe that they were entitled to a better life than going to fight in the jungle for a cause they didn't understand. now people are worried about jobs, about what their next, where their next neil is coming from. it's a different second fear. the fear engendered by the 9/11 attacks are horrific trauma is still with us. and fearful people are also much more easily whipped into line, or easily induced to believe that they are in danger by forces that the government points out, points act as endangering forces. little by little it seems t

. -- start bombing north vietnam. i felt it would be useless and argued against the bombing from the beginning. i was supported only by the state department representative. everybody else was all for bombing. and so we were outvoted, and the general in charge of this it all right, mr. gray, will you please sit down and write an intelligence assessment of the effectiveness of the bombing and he didn't tell me to follow the dictates of the vote. he just said right what you think is going to happen. so i did. and then superiors, a top level group which included maxwell taylor, director john mcgowan of the cia, and other luminaries came in, and brigadier general said we had heating -- a heated discussion but we decide to go ahead with the bombing. and mr. gregg will tell you how we think that will work out. and so i got up on my hind legs and was about 15 seconds into my presentation when i was skewered by maxwell taylor. and he said, young man, just hush up. and he turned to the general and said what do i hear hear? he s

and they said, "if you're a good guy, you don't get sent . you get sent to vietnam. if you're a bad guy, you have a little stigma against you and you don't go to vietnam. " not that they did not love the country, but they didn't want us to be involved there. it was a dishonorable war and it was an unwinnable war. so when i raised my hand and told mrs. johnson what those boys had told me and also how i felt about our involvement in vietnam, it seems that within two hours i was out of work in the united states, according to my dossier that was given to me not just . not the whole thing, just a smidgen. it said that i was on the cia list in the united states of america. q: now you spoke up during a . a discussion that was largely devoted to the beautification of america. ek: well, her idea, and according to the ladies there, too, was to plant wild seeds along route 66. (laughter) ek: and i thought, that's all very well and good. but what we need is education for everyone, equal education for all, and why is it that our schools are so dilapidated and our educational syst

how many people died in the vietnam war we knew nothing of the americans with some position it is just over fifty eight pounds each with his or her name engraved on the vietnam memorial wall in washington d.c. but how many of you to me not to mention million cambodians died with the u.s. . news probably no one would know for certain in one thousand nine hundred five vietnam released a figure of a million civilians.