1:17:02
Come to see how his explosives worked?
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His original target was a military parade.
1:17:08
We were pretty tough on him.
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Did you tell him you wouldn't support him?
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- We told him if he
steps out of line again...
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- He tried to kill you
on the road to Saigon.
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No. He tried to kill you.
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You knew?
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I suspected that he might try something.
Or one of his officers.
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So I tagged along just in case.
1:17:30
You're a fool if you think
you can control General Thé.
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In a war, you use the tools you've got.
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Right now, he's the best we have.
1:17:38
And in the meantime,
even more people must die.
1:17:41
Last year the US government
gave $210 million
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in military assistance
to the French in Indochina.
1:17:47
If we are going to stop communism
and underwrite a third way,
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we need to give the people
a leader who they admire.
1:17:55
Tomorrow when Congress reads
the sees the photographs
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of the communist atrocities,
they are going to give us that support.
1:18:01
The French won't stop the communists.
1:18:03
They haven't got the brains
and they haven't got the guts.
1:18:10
How did I fit into all this?
1:18:14
Am I part of your cover?
1:18:17
Or a source of information?
1:18:21
Or did you have your eye
on Phuong all the time?
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You and Phuong? I never planned for
any of that to happen. Believe me.
1:18:29
It would have been easier
if I'd never met either one of you.
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- But you did. And you lied to us.
- What do you want me to tell you?
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That I took no action?
That I have no opinion?
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Tell me that you don't mean any of this.
1:18:48
Tell me that you were only obeying orders.
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Or tell me that after what you saw
in the square, those children,
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who did nothing and hurt no one,
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tell me that you were
so confused and horrified
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at how brutal and insane
these actions are.