From Vietnam to Iraq: America's Legacy of Atrocity
“WHEN A WELL-PACKAGED WEB OF LIES HAS BEEN SOLD GRADUALLY TO THE MASSES OVER GENERATIONS, THE TRUTH WILL SEEM UTTERLY PREPOSTEROUS, AND ITS SPEAKER A RAVING LUNATIC. ”
"...the health of our system would have been demonstrated by a change of policy caused by a recognition that what we [did] in Vietnam [was] wrong, a criminal act, that an American 'victory' would have been a tragedy. Nothing could be more remote from the American political consciousness. So long as this remains true, we are fated to relive this horror."
