Last night the President did not offer the American people any hope that the slaughter would stop or that our prisoners would be returned. All we heard were the same old arguments for continuing the war. But do these arguments justify the continuation of a war that has cost over a million lives. created almost 7 million refugees. 23 million bomb craters. and has cost this Nation more than $100 billion? What logic still compels our Nations leaders to the conclusion that dropping a few hundred thousand more tons of bombs will be more effective in defeating a tenacious enemy than the 6 million tons already unloaded on Indochina? After more than a decade of search and destroy missions. body counts and pacification programs. it is time to acknowledge the truths that have emerged from this quagmire.
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