Neil Sheehan

“The reality was that the war was a stalemate, and a bloody one at that.”

“The story was the government's secret history of the war, a history that had been concealed from the American people.”

“To destroy a fellow human being is to shred a part of your own humanity.”

“A lie cannot live.”

“The war had a momentum of its own.”

“The Saigon regime was a creature of the United States.”

“The establishment of a non-Communist government in South Vietnam was the central justification for the American war.”

“We were lied into war.”

“Vann was America in Vietnam.”

“You have to have a sense of outrage to be a good journalist.”

“To lie, to bullshit, to puff, to evade, to stonewall, to cover up, to be evasive, to be disingenuous—these were the verbs of power.”