Kerry develops this argument in many ways, including when he states, "Someone has to die so that President Nixon is not, and these are his words, 'the first president to lose a war.'” Showing how American lives are lost because of “America's Pride,” this begs the question: What is the real motivation for the war? He asks this question once again when he states: “We have seen pride allow the most insignificant battles to be transformed into extravagances, because we could not lose, and we could not retreat, and because no matter how many American bodies we could not prove it” Once again he instills in the heads of his audience the lack of moral motivation behind the war. He refers to American lives as “American bodies,” showing once again how soldiers are dehumanized, ultimately, to “prove a point.” In both of these statements Kerry purposely leaves out mention of a moral purpose because he is trying to make those intentions disappear. By revealing the Vietnam War for what it is, he hopes to shake his audience's reasoning in favor of the war