Sunday, March 07, 2004
Words of a Winter Soldier
Dawkins writes:
Searing testimony before the Congress from a decorated soldier just returned from the front lines of battle:
Could be because the words apply equally well to Iraq as they did to Vietnam.
Could be also because the words were delivered to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on April 22, 1971, by a familiar voice, John F. Kerry.
Worth a read to see more completely what this guy was/is made of, to recall the mistakes the administration made then, and the way in which this administration is making the same mistakes in Iraq.
From the current issue of the Evergreen Review, reprinted from the Review's September 1971 issue.
posted by Blicero : 3/07/2004 08:53:00 PM
Searing testimony before the Congress from a decorated soldier just returned from the front lines of battle:
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of [Iraq] someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something the entire world already knows, so that we can't say we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President [Bush] won't be, and these are his words, "the first president to lose a war."And:
We are also here to ask, and we are here to ask vehemently, where are the leaders of our country, where is the leadership? We are here to ask where [Cheney], [Rumsfeld], [Powell], [Rice], and so many others, where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war.Sound familiar?
Could be because the words apply equally well to Iraq as they did to Vietnam.
Could be also because the words were delivered to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on April 22, 1971, by a familiar voice, John F. Kerry.
Worth a read to see more completely what this guy was/is made of, to recall the mistakes the administration made then, and the way in which this administration is making the same mistakes in Iraq.
From the current issue of the Evergreen Review, reprinted from the Review's September 1971 issue.
posted by Blicero : 3/07/2004 08:53:00 PM
