Speech #920216209

Well. now. the Senator has talked about the refugees flooding the roads as shown in the recent pictures. Are we the ones mining the roads? Are we the ones responsible for this invasion of the last 3 weeks. that is creating the millions of refugees and the casualties? It bothers me that nowhere in the Senators statement has he in any way referred to the fact that this situation has been caused by North Vietnam. The Senators entire statement tends to make it appear that America is flooding the roads with casualties and killing the old women and children. It seems to me that it is quite obvious that what is happening since the North Vietnamese violated the ceasefire line and came through there is that they are concentrating on these hamlets. they are concentrating on the civilian population by mining the roads used only by the refugees. We know what happened the last time they went into Hue. They murdered approximately 7.000 people. They seem to be getting ready to do the same thing. I do not know how the Senator can blame these refugees on us all the time.