Speech #920106210

We talk of interdiction. of protective reactionand we forget that we are talking of bombs raining down on people and villages. In South Vietnam alone. we know that since 1965. 1 million civilians have been wounded and 325.000 civilians have been killed. In Cambodia in the past year. up to 1.500.000 persons have become refugees in their own land. In Laos. which has been prime target of our unrestricted air war. official reports on the number of refugees now extends over 300.000. In North Vietnam. the exact number of the civilian dead and wounded is not known but it clearly has been enormous. Those are additional reasons why it is time to end this war.