Path to War Quotes

Path to War is a Biographical film television movie that appeared on TV in 2002 on HBO. Path to War ended in 1970.

It features Guy Riedel as producer, Gary Chang as theme composer, and Stephen Goldblatt as head of cinematography. Path to War is executive produced by Cary Brokaw.

Path to War is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Path to War is 165 minutes long. Path to War is produced by Avenue Pictures and distributed by HBO.

Path to War Quotes

• (Unnamed) "He doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot."

• (Unnamed) "They don't need damn trucks. Weren't you watching? They've got hundred-year-old women hauling crap. What do you want me to do, kill everyone's grandmother in that place?"

• (Unnamed) "Haven't you been paing attention? Hell, they got hundred-year-old women re-supplying them."

• (Unnamed) "Are they ours?"
• (Unnamed) "I sure f***in' hope so."

• (Unnamed) "The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be almost zero."
• (Unnamed) "I say 100 to 500, possibly more."
• (Unnamed) "Which is it? 500 or zero?"

• (Unnamed) "How many planes will we lose?"
• (Unnamed) "20 to 25."
• (Unnamed) "How many casualties?"
• (Unnamed) "50."
• (Unnamed) "50 to 300 is my estimate, and if the bombs miss, it can go as high as 12,000, with fifty percent of these civilians and fifty percent of those killed."
• (Unnamed) "Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets."
• (Unnamed) "But you do miss sometimes. And this time you could hit a Russian ship. And the bomber pilot will be a kid from Johnson City, Texas, and that'll be the kid that starts World War III, thank you very much."

• (Unnamed) "Clark, I can't tell you how grateful I am to finally have an ally at the barricades."
• (Unnamed) "Well, it's just what makes sense, George. Not to Bob McNamara, but to me. A million men was straight out of your memo of October of last year. An impressively persuasive document, in my opinion."
• (Unnamed) "All 67 pages of it? Well, it's true I haven't shown much restraint on the subject. If the President brought you in, it must be because I'm like -- an old, broken record now."
• (Unnamed) "Then there'll be two of us; scratchy and irritating as hell."

• (Unnamed) "This is a heavily-defended target in a very populated area."
• (Unnamed) "The photos are right here, Mr. President --"
• (Unnamed) "The photos are meaningless. The target is heavily defended. The pilots jettison their bombs while they're under attack. Now, I've been asking for two years why they don't just come straight up the river; that way, they dump their bombs, they go in the water and not on the people, and I still haven't got an answer."
• (Unnamed) "Coming in from the gulf involves an extra turn, with our backs to those heavy defenses."
• (Unnamed) "If it is so well defended, should we risk the pilots? Men dying is a relative thing."
• (Unnamed) "The effect of the air campaign is cumulative. Every blow makes the enemy stretch his resources."
• (Unnamed) "Stretching is a relative thing. Mr. President, we shouldn't be bombing for punitive reasons, but there just doesn't seem to be any point to this anymore."
• (Unnamed) "Hit it. Hit the god**** bridge."

• (Unnamed) "If this is a defeat, I would hate to see a victory."

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