Ellsberg Sees Iraq, Vietnam Parallels

[Spazito]

PARK CITY, Utah - The man who leaked the Pentagon (news - web sites) Papers more than 30 years ago said there are striking parallels between Vietnam and Iraq (news - web sites).

"This war could go on forever, no matter how unpopular it gets. That's very like Vietnam: a stale, hopeless occupation," Daniel Ellsberg, 71, said.

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"It was clear we were being lied into a war again ... being lied into what amounted to another Tonkin Gulf Resolution, with the Congress signing a blank check. To see Congress sleepwalking into another war was disheartening," Ellsberg said.

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Ellsberg believes there are many people in the Bush government who stay at their posts because they want to help from the inside, as he hoped to do during Vietnam.

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. I've been waiting and hoping that Allsberg would start speaking more abt

this.

Now HE is a true American Patriot.

[mb7588a]

5. I agree

I heard him speak at American University almost exactly a year ago about how false the accusations were. It was very motivational.

[PartyPooper]

2. Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it.

:evilfrown:

[Journeyman]

6. And those who accept history are doomed to a life of repeats.

:(

[proud patriot]

3. Here's to hoping he is right about WH officials staying to help

from the inside .

[bluestateguy]

4. On history

History often repeats itself, but never by the same script.

[Journeyman]

7. Or, as Schopenhauer explained:

Eadem, sed aliter. The same things differently. History’s motto.

[trof]

8. Read his book, "Secrets".

The most comprehensive, factual (as far as I can tell) account of the whys and hows of Viet Nam by a penultimate insider.