Word: indochina
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...Calley, along with hundreds of thousands of other American military forces, was not sent to Korea and Indochina to repel aggression, or in support of freedom and independence, as officially proclaimed, but to rob the people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others...
...Force and Navy pilots operating in Indochina, including Mr. Nixon's POW pets who were shot down, have murdered, maimed and wounded in indiscriminate bombing, a thousandfold more Indochinese than Calley and his group. This was also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...
Sordid and indefensible as were the crimes of many U.S. forces in Indochina (and earlier in Korea), their crimes are minor when compared with those committed by the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations which sent them to Korea and Indochina on missions of naked and raw robbery. President Nixon should, of course, be impeached and convicted and driven from public office for high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed, as necessary for keeping the record clear...
...time, and even now, I think this logic made sense. As election analysts Scammon and Wattenberg have noted, the "social issue" was particularly powerful in 1970. Many working class whites--who had real doubts about our activities in Indochina--ended up supporting hawkish candidates because of their displeasure with student disruptions. If the blue collar workers in New York City knew what James Buckley stood for in the 1970 Senate election, he never would have gotten 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. A number of liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right...
...confirmation hearings last year, the AFL-CIO totaled up his 25 years of voting and came to the conclusion that he voted against workers' interests 94 per cent of the time--the third best anti-labor record in Congress. And as a self-proclaimed "internationalist," Ford consistently supported the Indochina...