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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.