“Your war . . . is quite rightly called a shameful and aggressive war not only by us, but also by most countries in the world,” said Brezhnev. And it is poisoning “the entire international situation.” Nixon might claim that the US bombing campaign was to protect the 60,000 US soldiers still there, but nobody had asked them to come, and they could readily be sent home. “You say you want to end the war, and you calmly put forward this idea, while cruelly bombing not only military targets but also the civilian population. And you call this a method of ending the war? This is a method of
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