There Should Be At Least

There Should Be At Least One Leak Like The Pentagon Papers Every Year.

It's Naive And Even Irresponsible For A Grownup Today To Get Her Or His Information About Foreign Policy And War And Peace Exclusively From The Administration In Power. It's Essential To Have Other Sources Of Information, To Check Those Against One's Own Common Sense, And To Form Your Own Judgment As To Whether We Ought To Go To Or Persist In War.

The Courage We Need Is Not The Fortitude To Be Obedient In The Service Of An Unjust War, To Help Conceal Lies, To Do Our Job For A Boss Who Has Usurped Power And Is Acting As An Outlaw Government. It Is The Courage At Last To Face Honestly The Truth And Reality Of What We Are Doing In The World And Act Responsibly To Change It.

We Need The Courage To Face The Truth About What We Are Doing In The World And Act Responsibly To Change It.

President Johnson Put Destroyers In Harm's Way In The Tonkin Gulf Not Only Once, But Several Times, With The, With A Lot Of His People Hoping That It Would Lead To A Confrontation And Claiming That It Had. And Could Have Resulted In The Lost Of Many Lives In The Course Of It.