Tag: George McGovern

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.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

People didn’t have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.