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Spazito

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:22 AM
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Ellsberg Sees Iraq, Vietnam Parallels

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PARK CITY, Utah - The man who leaked the Pentagon (news - web sites) Papers more than 30 years ago said there are striking parallels between Vietnam and Iraq (news - web sites).

"This war could go on forever, no matter how unpopular it gets. That's very like Vietnam: a stale, hopeless occupation," Daniel Ellsberg, 71, said.

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"It was clear we were being lied into a war again ... being lied into what amounted to another Tonkin Gulf Resolution, with the Congress signing a blank check. To see Congress sleepwalking into another war was disheartening," Ellsberg said.

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Ellsberg believes there are many people in the Bush government who stay at their posts because they want to help from the inside, as he hoped to do during Vietnam.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/ellsberg_award

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Tom Yossarian Joad

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:25 AM
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1. I've been waiting and hoping that Allsberg would start speaking more abt

this.

Now HE is a true American Patriot.

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mb7588a

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:09 AM
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5. I agree

I heard him speak at American University almost exactly a year ago about how false the accusations were. It was very motivational.

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PartyPooper

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Mon Oct-20-03 12:25 AM
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2. Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it.

:evilfrown:

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Journeyman

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:35 AM
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6. And those who accept history are doomed to a life of repeats.

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proud patriot

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:08 AM
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3. Here's to hoping he is right about WH officials staying to help

from the inside .

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bluestateguy

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:41 AM
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4. On history

History often repeats itself, but never by the same script.

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Journeyman

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:37 AM
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7. Or, as Schopenhauer explained:

Eadem, sed aliter. The same things differently. History’s motto.

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trof

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Mon Oct-20-03 06:40 AM
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8. Read his book, "Secrets".

The most comprehensive, factual (as far as I can tell) account of the whys and hows of Viet Nam by a penultimate insider.

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