George McGovern was right about the Vietnam war — and he’s right about the Iraq war
BuzzFlash interview: ‘if McGovern had become president [in 1972], many more young men would have returned home to their families, instead of having their names end up … on the Vietnam memorial in Washington.’ [→ READ ]
BuzzFlash interview with George McGovern:
Let me say that one thing that Richard Pearle and Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have in common is that none of them have ever been near a combat scene. They’re perfectly willing to send younger people — other people’s sons — into war. …
It makes me furious to see people like that beating their chests on how patriotic they are, waving the flag, glorifying God, while young Americans are needlessly being sacrificed in wars that they have devised, not our troops. These theorists sit around dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
What they’re doing is blasphemy, by definition: “blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.”
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