:29:01
[Man]
Fire!
:29:04
[Man] We haven"t found his weapon yet.
We"re still looking for it.
:29:08
-[Man #2] You got a weapon?
- No, sir.
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He had one, man.
This guy"s got ammo.
:29:12
[Man #3]
I"m planning to medivac this guy.
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[Talking, Indistinct]
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[Indistinct]
:29:20
[Ellsberg]
The people who are living in the jungle,
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under the bombs, without pay,
without their families,
:29:27
are doing so because
they are fighting for independence.
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Because they"re fighting,
in this case, for unification...
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and they"re fighting for revolution.
:29:35
-[Man On Radio, Indistinct]
- [Moaning]
:29:39
[Moaning Louder]
:29:42
Of course,
the name for a conflict...
:29:47
in which you're opposing a revolution
is counter-revolution.
:29:51
And this is something
We never admitted to ourselves at all.
:29:53
It's-It's what we were really doing.
:29:55
[Man]
The letters and the reports we had...
:29:59
on Ho Chi Minh"s attitude
back in 1946--
:30:03
he wrote I think it was seven letters to
this government and received no reply.
:30:07
The-The-The pathos, almost,
the sadness--
:30:12
Here's a man who felt
and believed the United States...
:30:16
would be sympathetic to his purpose
of gaining his independence...
:30:19
from a colonial power.
:30:21
And then to find we--
You know, this is what he'd read.
:30:25
He'd been here, read our Constitution
and Declaration of Independence.
:30:28
He thought surely the United States
would be interested.
:30:31
We had testimony in the committee
that his one worry...
:30:34
was that
it was so insignificant--
:30:36
Vietnam was so far away, insignificant--
we would never bother about it.
:30:40
It's too small to ever attract
the attention of the United States.
:30:45
He was sure in his own mind...
:30:47
that if we ever put our minds
in focus upon it, we would be for him.
:30:50
How different history would have
been for us and for them...
:30:55
if we had felt a common interest...
:30:58
in the colonial province like Vietnam...