"The villages that I have seen raided in the last six months may or may not have harbored VC before we raided them; they all did by the time we had finished."--A GI's letter published in the newsletter of Contra Costa, California Citizens Against the War in Vietnam, February 1967, quoted in
Michael Parenti, The Anti-Communist Impulse
"A sardonic saying favored by the Saigon police was: 'If they are innocent beat them until they become guilty.'"--
Noam Chomsky and
Edward S. Herman,
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I