Daniel Ellsberg slams secrecy and lying by Bush on Iraq

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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050914/NEWS11/509140353/1012

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."

Ellsberg, now 74, was a military analyst in the Nixon administration. He leaked copies of a 7,000-page classified document later widely known as the Pentagon Papers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and later to several newspapers.

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1. Here's hoping people listen to him

I'm so glad he resurfaced to help get the word out about these criminals.