The REAL 1960s Terrorists Were Named...

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This needs to be understood by everyone.

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The REAL 1960s Terrorists Were Named Westmoreland, Johnson and Nixon
by Harvey Wasserman

Hate-mongering against alleged “leftist 1960s terrorists” now fills the days of anti-Obama rage for the Rovian bloviator battalion.
Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, Baby Boom professors, social workers , etc, are front and center for the hateful blatherings of the usual GOP flunkies all cowering at the prospect of an African-American president.

But there were, indeed, three 1960s terrorists whose murderous, planet-killing rampage continues to poison this nation. They tower above all others. Their names: William Westmoreland, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

This unholy trinity killed outright more than 55,000 Americans and several million southeast Asians—most of them innocent civilians—while bombing, strafing and spewing horrific toxic chemicals onto countless of square miles of previously pristine jungle. Their Agent Orange caused tens of thousands of deaths and deformities that still carry through the generations.

No single terror act in the history of the United States even remotely compares to the lethal psychosis that created and was then furthered by the Vietnam War.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10789/

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1. Not to mention the Mary McFate...

/ agent provocateur of the day -- deployed to discredit said 'anti-war groups'.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/mary-mcfate-sapone-gun-lobby-nra-spy.html
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20080801_A_trusted_Pa__gun-control_ally_____and_NRA_spy_.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/mary-mcfate--shes-the-nra_b_116826.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/4/leading_gun_control_activist_exposed_as

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2. yuck

What a nasty thing to do.

[mwb970]

3. I was thinking of Ohio's Gov. Rhodes.

Remember Kent State?

[Raster]

4. And we are still dealing with the "fruit of the poisonous tree" today.

Nixon should have been tried and convicted. The evidence should have been presented to the American people. Of course the Military-Industrial Complex and the Corporatocracy would NEVER have allowed that. The Vietnam backlash brought this country perilously close to ousting the warmongering overlords. Can't have that now, can we?

[Demeter]

5. Cheney and Rumsfeld Were in There Pitching, Too

and John Mitchell, and ....fortunately, a lot of them are dead.

[Raster]

6. Unfortunately, not enough.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Any list that doesn't mention Henry Kissinger is incomplete

This is the man who blocked a settlement with North Vietnam for five years--during which half the U.S. and Vietnamese war-related deaths occurred.

[central scrutinizer]

8. But he is Nobel Peace Prize laureate!

blech

[Doctor_J]

9. George Herbert Walker Bush and his cronies had JFK killed

let's not forget that, please.