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The way a Christian
takes the Bible...
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and he holds it sacred.
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The way a lot of people
hold their marriage sacred.
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That's how I feel about it.
So why don't we dive right in...
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by interpreting
one of the easiest events...
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in the last twenty years
of American history.
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Now, can someone tell me...
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why, in 1975, we pulled
our troops out of Vietnam?
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The failure of Vietnamization
to win popular support...
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caused an ongoing erosion
of confidence...
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in the various American...
but illegal... Saigon regimes.
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Is she right?
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'Cause I know
that's the popular version...
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of what went on there.
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I know a lot of people
like to believe that.
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I wish I could,
but I was there.
:32:46
I wasn't here in a classroom...
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hoping I was right,
thinking about it.
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I was up to my knees
in rice paddies...
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with guns that didn't work,
going up against Charlie...
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slugging it out with him,
while pussies like you...
:32:57
were back here partyin',
puttin' headbands on...
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doin' drugs, listening
to the goddamn Beatle albums!
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Hey, Professor,
take it easy, will ya?
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These kids were in grade school
at the time.
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And me...
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I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover.
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Well, I didn't know you wanted
to get involved...
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with the discussion,
Mr. Helper.
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But since you want to help,
maybe you can help me, OK?
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You remember that thing
we had about thirty years ago...
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called the Korean conflict?
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Yeah. Where we failed
to achieve victory.
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How come we didn't cross
the 38th parallel...
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and push those rice-eaters back
to the Great Wall of China...
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and take it apart
brick by brick...
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and nuke them back into
the fuckin' stone age forever?
:33:45
How come? Tell me?
Why? Say it! Say it!
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All right, I'll say it.
:33:51
'Cause Truman was too much
of a pussy wimp...
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to let MacArthur go in and blow
out those commie bastards!
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Good answer. Good answer.