Critic of Vietnam War slams secrecy on Iraq

[Khaotic]

Des Moines Register, September 14, 2005
Critic of Vietnam War slams secrecy on Iraq
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the explosive Pentagon Papers, spent two days in the Des Moines area.
By ABBY SIMONS, REGISTER STAFF WRITER

More than 30 years after he became an internationally known whistle-blower during the Vietnam War, anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg said Wednesday that history is repeating itself as soldiers continue to die in Iraq.

"It isn't just the lies and the secrets; we've always had those. It's what they're lying about and concealing with the secrecy," Ellsberg said during a two-day stop in the Des Moines area.

"Nixon was concealing, with my help, plans which were carried out to wage aggressive war in Vietnam. In the case of the current war, the secrecy protected President Bush's plans, which were carried out as a disastrous war in Iraq."

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Not a National news story yet, but I thought I would pass this on in that it made an appearance here in Iowa.

More people are finally waking up ... finding out that they can't see Red, White, and Blue with their head up their ass; instead they're finding out that they've been keeping themselves in the dark.

Duh.

[damntexdem]

1. And that odor they're smelling ...

it must be Dubya's roses, right?

It ain't just brush that Dubya's been cutting at America.

[Barrett808]

2. "This president foresees the indefinite occupation of Iraq..."

"I believe this president foresees the indefinite occupation of Iraq, and by indefinite I don't mean two or three years, I mean 40 or 50 years."

Damn.

[saigon68]

3. IT WILL BE A NEW KOREA

With thousands of suicide bombers blowing the CRAP out of everything.