Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

We see what we want to believe.