The Reason Why
'During the long years of my opposition to [the
Vietnam War], including a
presidential campaign dedicated to ending the American involvement, I
said in a moment of disgust: "I'm sick and tired of old men dreaming
up wars in which young men do the dying." That terrible American
blunder, in which 58,000 of our bravest young men died, and many times
that number were crippled physically or psychologically, also cost the
lives of some 2 million Vietnamese as well as a similar number of
Cambodians and Laotians, in addition to laying waste most of Indochina -
its villages, fields, trees and waterways; its schools, churches, markets
and hospitals. I had thought after that horrible tragedy - sold to the
American people by our policy-makers as a mission of freedom and mercy -
that we never again would carry out a needless, ill-conceived invasion of
another country that had done us no harm and posed no threat to our
security. I was wrong in that assumption' (
George McGovern via
The Nation )
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See also Eisenhower's Farewell
Address from 1961
I Miss America - Even Dick Nixon looks good to
me now
'The crimes of George W Bush ON A DAILY BASIS surpass the
collective crimes of Richard Nixon's
entire presidential career. So, why aren't people more outraged by the
current White House's abuse of power,
unprecedented in American history?'
( Alan Bisbort via Hartford Advocate
)
