President. let us end the bloodbath argument and see it for the hoax it is: An excuse which has allowed this administration to prolong the agony of Vietnam and to maintain and escalate a policy of war. We can only face this truth when we also clearly face the fact that we are today substantially contributing to the rising toll of war victims throughout Indochina. This fact is documented in our Governments cables from the field. from official studies. and from 7 years of hearings and study by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugeesall underscore the point that American bombs and American supplied ammunition create refugees and civilian casualties just as well as North Vietnamese and Vietcong action. Yet. American complicity in the tragedy of this bloody war is consistently minimized by the administration. It takes a picture of a napalmed little Vietnamese girl running across our television screens before we fully realize that we still provide the napalm and all the other bombs which continue to drop on the people of Indochina. It takes a news story such as this. published in a recent issue of Time magazine. to remind us that American bombs kill civilians and create refugees. The Time article reports: The U.S. maintains that civilians are not being bombed in the delta. But last week Tom Fox of Times Saigon bureau paid a visit to Dinh Tuong Province.
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