President
Obama’s secretary of state, John Kerry, is pushing hard on the talk shows for
the USA to attack Syria.
Now
is a good time to remember what Navy Lieutenant John Kerry had to say about war
when he was promoting himself as a phony war hero and future politician.
“ . . .Each day to facilitate the process by which the United
States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the
United States doesn’t have to admit something that the entire world already
knows, so that we can’t say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so
that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, “the first President to
lose a war.”
We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask
a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last
man to die for a mistake? We are here in Washington to say that the problem of
this war is not just a question of war and diplomacy. It is part and parcel of
everything that we are trying as human beings to communicate to people in this
country – the question of racism which is rampant in the military, and so many
other questions such as the use of weapons; the hypocrisy in our taking umbrage
at the Geneva Conventions and using that as justification for a continuation of
this war when we are more guilty than any other body of violations of those
Geneva Conventions… That is what we are trying to say. It is part and
parcel of everything…
We are here to ask, and we are here to ask vehemently, where are
the leaders of our country? Where is the leadership? We’re here to ask where
are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatrick, and so many others? Where are they now
that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders
who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws
of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The marines say they
never even leave their dead. These men have left all the casualties and
retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They’ve left the real
stuff of their reputations bleaching behind them in the sun in this country…”
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