Daniel Ellsberg became a hero to the people when he released
the Pentagon Papers in 1971. These papers exposed the deceit and lies the US government, during the administration of
Lyndon Johnson, to expand and extend the war in Southeast
Asia during the 1960’s.
Ellsberg spoke at the September 7th World Can’t
Wait meeting in San Francisco.
He spoke of the massive demonstrations that took place in the fall of 1969
across the US,
and said of the demonstrators “What they didn’t know was that in fact they
were stopping nuclear war. The president (at that time, Nixon) had made threats
of nuclear war secretly several times starting in May and in August and
September, saying that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons on Vietnam. They
said that to the Russians and the North Vietnamese directly in Paris. And with 2 million people in the
streets, he had to conclude that an ultimatum which was dated for November 1- ”
Historical analogy here: the fact is that when people did march in October and
November 1969 – without even realizing that a crisis was imminent, they just
saw the war was going on – they in fact stopped a massive escalation of the
war. Which did take part sequentially – Laos,
Cambodia, Haiphong–over the years, but the nuclear
part, no.”
Now, we know that an attack on Iran is being planned and mobilized
by the Bush regime. Read the latest articles in The Nation and Time
Magazine for further exposure of this. And we know that Bush and several of
his spokesmen have openly said that “all options are on the table”. This,
as everyone knows, means everything up to and including the use of nuclear
weapons – “portable holocausts”, to cite Ellsberg again. The
consequences of this are horrific beyond description.
The Democrats are aiding and abetting the Bush drive for war
with Iran.
They are assisting in providing justifications for it. (For example read what Barrack
Obama is saying, and check out an article from Joshua Frank.) Nothing less than a
massive public repudiation of the entire Bush agenda and program can have any
impact on stopping this.
The question is: what are you going to do?
October
5th: The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime