One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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