Posted on 06/16/2023 12:29:02 PM PDT by nwrep
Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.
Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife and children said in a statement.
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Until they started broadcasting the lies told to report by Communists/Viet Cong sympathizers. Thanks, Walter Cronkite.
True of everyone except North Korea or maybe Cuba
Most are now free enterprise zones lorded over by a gangster clique with catchy Soviet style acronyms preoccupied with providing a living wage to their drone culture especially the peasant agrarian class that teem into their cities
In many ways they are more honest that our own decayed ever increasing statism and uniparty
Kids bled out 60 years ago in steamy rice paddies and jungle so Marriott could build in cam ranh bay
It’s sad to me
Whoever says we lost the war at home is right despite DOD fudging casualty numbers
I was last draft year registration but lots of older guys I knew went
I was referring to the Generals not the ground pounders in the thick of it. So GFY.
That is the answer I’d expect from a “Vietnam Veteran” sailor.
What favor, by giving Biden the idea of what to do in Iraq?
The orders of what to do and not do in Vietnam came from the USSR. The USA from the start of Marxism was always in the Marxist movement’s crosshairs.
Sorry: Afghanistan, not Iraq.
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