Quotes from William Westmoreland

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I don't take criticism lying down.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail