Greg Stewart as the Unknown Soldier speaks with a Vietnam Veteran about the War in Iraq as they wait for the start of the March On the Pentagon in Washington DC on 3/17/07
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Vietnam Vet on Iraq War 1
Greg Stewart as the Unknown Soldier speaks with a Vietnam Veteran about the War in Iraq as they wait for the start of the March On the Pentagon in Washington DC on 3/17/07
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---A LITTLE UNREALITY CHECK--
WAR AND PEACE?
SOME OF THE MOST AWESOME AND DEADLY HISTORY
BEING MADE IN RECENT HISTORY HAS BEEN
---IN PEACETIME!
30 MILLION -IN CLASS AND POLITICAL GENOCIDE
IN 20'S AND 30'S SOVIET RUSSIA.
70 MILLION -IN MAO TSE TUNG'S PEACETIME
GREAT LEAP -AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION.
-A THIRD OF THE CAMBODIAN POPULATION -AFTER
THE U.S. PULLED OUT OF VIET NAM.
-MILLIONS IN NORTH KOREA -EVEN UP TO THIS MINUTE.
-OF COURSE -WE KNOW! -WAR -IS -HELL!
---but
WHO EVER TOLD US? -PEACE IS HELL TOO.
-AND IN SOME WAYS -AN EVEN WORSE -MORE CHRONIC
-MORE ENDURING HELL.
THE FACTS OF THE LAST CENTURY OR SO BEAR THIS OUT.
--WHAT TO DO?
-YA' GOT ME -BUT STAY OR LEAVE -IT AIN'T GOING AWAY FOLKS---