Lecture compares Vietnam to war in Iraq

Lecture compares Vietnam to war in Iraq

(EXCERPT) By Christina Mills Collegian Correspondent November 10, 2003

"We were lied into Vietnam, as we were lied into Iraq. Iraq was a
well-done war of aggression and it has become very reminiscent of
Vietnam," writer Daniel Ellsberg told a crowd at Smith College
Thursday.

In his lecture, Ellsberg compared the parallels of the Vietnam War and
the current war in Iraq, with a subtext about the use of nuclear
warfare. The Bush administration, according to Ellsberg, is following
horribly bad examples.

"It took eight years to get U.S troops out of Vietnam and there's no
oil there... Like in Vietnam, if we pull our troops out of Iraq now
we'll lose credibility- or worse, we'll lose oil," Ellsberg
sarcastically quipped.

During the Vietnam War, Ellsberg, author of "Secrets: A Memoir of
Vietnam" and "The Pentagon Papers: Secrets and Lies About Nuclear
Threats, the War on Terror, and Iraq," believes that President Nixon
lied about the war and lied about his involvement, afraid he would be
unable to win another election if he revealed his hidden agenda.
President Nixon was trying to make a world empire out of the United
States. However, Ellsberg pointed out that he used the same terrorist
tactics, like un...

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