I said then. and I say again: I am appalled that our national leadership finds it so easy to escalate its policy of violence through an unlimited airwar. I am appalled that it chooses to ignore the record of devastation and death our bombing has caused in the past. Must we increase the more than 1.000.000 (now over 1.150.000) civilian casualties and 5.000.000 (now 6.350.000) refugees In South Vietnam? Must we increase the tens of thousands of civilian casualties and 1.000.000 refugees in Laos? Must we increase the tens of thousands of civilian casualties and more than 1.500.000 (now over 2.000.000) refugees in Cambodia? Must we destroy more villages. decimate more tribal peoples. and make more land uninhabitableall for a cause which most Americans no longer support? And. are we as a nation so morally bankrupt that we can sweep the issue of war victims into the pages of history without putting forth a greater effort to meet human needs?
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