1:22:14
It's no surprise
that in a very poor country...
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you can find people
who will wear foreign uniforms.
1:22:21
What has always surprised us,
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what we've never been willing
to predict or understand,
1:22:27
is that the Vietnamese
communist leadership...
1:22:30
can find enough people
to live in the tunnels,
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fight for nothing
wearing ragged shorts,
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year after year
under the American bombs.
1:22:39
A war in which one side
is entirely financed...
1:22:44
and equipped and supported
by foreigners...
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is not a civil war.
1:22:49
The only foreigners
in that country...
1:22:51
were the foreigners we financed
in the first part of the war...
1:22:54
and the foreigners we were
in the second half of the war.
1:22:59
Basically,
we didn't want to acknowledge...
1:23:01
the scale of our involvement there.
1:23:03
We didn't want to realize
that it was our war,
1:23:05
because that would have been to say
that every casualty on both sides...
1:23:09
was a casualty
caused by our policy.
1:23:12
The question used to be ''Might it
be possible we were on the wrong side...
1:23:16
in the Vietnamese War?''
1:23:18
We weren't on the wrong side.
1:23:21
We are the wrong side.
1:23:30
You have exemplified,
in your corner of the world,
1:23:33
patriotism of the highest order.
1:23:35
You have brought to your great task
of organizing your country...
1:23:40
the greatest of courage,
the greatest of statesmanship.
1:23:49
[Speaking French]
1:23:55
[Translator]
I had two possibilities.
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Either I could submit
to Washington's politics--