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Name the historical event each US government official is speaking about in the quote
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"Kill everything that moves."
Vietnam War
"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
War on Drugs
"Look pretty and do as little as possible."
AIDS Crisis
"So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment."
Tuskegee Study
"Prior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects."
MKUltra
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"It would be unfair for the public to get the impression that we were all a bunch of rapists after we worked so hard to serve our country."
Pacific Theater
"It felt like you were on fire, Guys started screaming and hollering and trying to break out. And then some of the guys fainted. And finally they opened the door and let us out, and the guys were just, they were in bad shape. It took all the skin off your hands. Your hands just rotted."
World War II
"Shoot first, ask questions later."
Iraq War
"Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of-- as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure?"
Korean War
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