Path to War (2002)

Actors

• Scott Atkinson (actor)
• John Aylward (actor)
• Alec Baldwin (actor)
• Christian Barnes (actor)
• Gerry Becker (actor)
• Andreas Beckett (actor)
• Donald Black (actor)
• Andrew Borba (actor)
• Robert Cicchini (actor)
• Jonathan Coder (actor)
• Kelly Connell (actor)
• Kevin Cooney (actor)
• Walter Cronkite (actor)
• Gordon Davis (actor)
• Brad Abrell (actor)

Genres

• Drama

Taglines:

Beyond the battlefields of Vietnam. Inside the halls of power. A different kind of war would decide the fate of a nation.
While one war was being fought in Vietnam another was being fought in the White House.

Quotes:

Senator Everett Dirksen: If this is a defeat, I would hate to see a victory.

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Pack your suitcase, we're goin' to Vietnam.

Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: [Looking at the fighter jet escort next to Air Force One] Are they ours? Dean, Dean!::Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: Are they ours?::Lyndon Baines Johnson: I sure fuckin' hope so.

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Haven't you been paying attention? Hell, they got hundred-year-old women re-supplying them!

Lyndon Baines Johnson: He doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot.

Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many planes will we lose?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 20 to 25.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: How many casualties?::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: 50.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: 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.::Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: Of course, we don't plan these strikes to miss our targets.::Lyndon Baines Johnson: 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.

Lyndon Baines Johnson: 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?

George Ball, Undersecretary of State: Clark, I can't tell you how grateful I am to finally have an ally at the barricades.::Clark Clifford: 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.::George Ball, Undersecretary of State: 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.::Clark Clifford: Then there'll be two of us - scratchy and irritating as hell.

Gen. Earle 'Buzz' Wheeler: The bridge is a major target, and we've never hit it. Chances of civilian deaths will be almost zero.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I say 100 to 500, possibly more!::Lyndon Baines Johnson: Which is it? 500 or zero?

Walt Rostow: Mr. President, the Stennis committee is up in arms over our holding back on these bombing targets! Bob's testimony is coming up, and it'll take some heat off him if some of these could be cleared up before his appearance.::Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense: I think I can take the heat without padding my resume with more bombing missions.

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