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Go, motherfucker! Go!
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[Newscaster]
Since the Lunar New Year,
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the Vietcong and North Vietnamese
have proved they are capable...
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of bold and impressive
military moves...
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that Americans here
never dreamed could be achieved.
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Whether the Vietcong can sustain
this onslaught long remains to be seen,
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but whatever turn this war now takes,
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the capture of the U.S. Embassy
in Saigon for seven hours...
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will be a story to rally
and inspire the Vietcong.
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Don North, ABC news,
at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
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I know that, as was the case in
the Battle of the Bulge in World War II,
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that after the enemy exposed himself,
we would defeat him.
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He would be weakened,
and we could follow that up.
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Through the use of, uh,
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the maximum military force
that we could bring to bear on him,
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through the bombing,
through the mining of the harbors,
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through the cutting
of his lines of communication,
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by moving in
and cleaning out his sanctuaries,
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the enemy would have no choice...
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but to come
to some accommodation.
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[Man]
In the beginning of 1968,
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General Westmoreland
needed 206,000 more troops.
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We met hour after hour
after hour in the Pentagon.
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And I started in and asked
theJoint Chiefs of Staff,
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''How long do you think that
we'll still be in the war?''
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None of them knew.
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''Uh, do you think that
the 206,000 men will be enough?''
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Nobody knew.
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''Uh, might we have to send more men?''
''Well, possibly.''
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''Well, in six months?''
''We don't know.''
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''Ayear? Eighteen months?''
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I couldn't get answers
to these questions.
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By the end of that
four-day interrogation,
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I was getting down--by the end of it--
into very serious questions,
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''Do any of you men,
as you look at it objectively,
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do you find any diminution
in the will of the enemy to fight?''
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Well, they said,
''No, we guess we don't.''