Thirty-five years ago, on February 27, 1968, I sat in a small room on Capitol Hill and watched a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse spoke about the war in Vietnam. Moments before the hearing adjourned, Morse said he did not "intend to put the blood of this war on my hands." Years earlier, in 1964, Senator Morse told a national TV audience: "I don't know why we think, just because we're mighty, that we have the right to try to substitute might for right."
Today, I join with increasing numbers of Americans who do not intend to put the blood of this war on our hands. We refuse to accept the pernicious and murderous notion that the United States has the right to substitute might for right. We will continue to denounce the administration's war plans - no matter how much President Bush cloaks his war cries in lofty rhetoric. No one can dispute the Pentagon's capacity to inflict massive and overpowering violence. But might does not make right.
Norman Solomon
Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy
http://www.accuracy.org
Co-author, Target Iraq (Context Books, New York: January 2003)
http://www.contextbooks.com
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Today, I join with increasing numbers of Americans who do not intend to put the blood of this war on our hands. We refuse to accept the pernicious and murderous notion that the United States has the right to substitute might for right. We will continue to denounce the administration's war plans - no matter how much President Bush cloaks his war cries in lofty rhetoric. No one can dispute the Pentagon's capacity to inflict massive and overpowering violence. But might does not make right.
Norman Solomon
Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy
http://www.accuracy.org
Co-author, Target Iraq (Context Books, New York: January 2003)
http://www.contextbooks.com
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