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Show If you don't want to do thi get out. JA : Yeah. BILL: But don t go in and then bitch and call yourself a conscientious objector and bitch about what s going on. Wrong as it is, I'm not condoning that war over there at all, because we should have never have been there in the first place, but that's not my judgment; that's not my call. But if you're there-and the other thing is if you're there, if you're going to fight a war, win the war. If you're not going to win the war, get your ass out of there. Same as Nam. They knew they weren't going to win that war. They said they weren't. They weren't trying. Then McNamara turns around and says, "Well, we weren't going to try to win anyway-" He let fifty-two thousand kids get killed, then said, "Well, we weren't trying to win the war anyway."? That guy should have been taken out and shot. JAS: Heavy conscience. BILL: Yeah. In ten years they killed fifty-four thousand; in three years in Korea they killed fifty-two thousand. Korea they really lost a lot of men. JAS: It was sort of a different situation with you, too, because your daughter had just been born. BILL: Yeah, but just like I was saying, if I didn't want it, if this was against my feelings, then get out. If when they call me and need me, and I say, "Oh, I can't go. I've taken your money, but I don't want to get shot at." Well, then, I should never have been in the military in the first place. See, that's just my feelings on it. Anybody else can have any feelings they want. That has nothing to do with me. And if you said, "I don't want to go 128 |
