Vietnam War

I just took a small portion of his statement on Vietnam.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/14/928855/-Why-Im-Posting-Bail-Money-for-Julian-Assange

Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read "secret" memos from Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the "facts" he wanted in order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do you think that the war would have been launched -- or rather, wouldn't there have been calls for Cheney's arrest?

Openness, transparency -- these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt. What if within days of August 4th, 1964 -- after the Pentagon had made up the lie that our ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin -- there had been a WikiLeaks to tell the American people that the whole thing was made up? I guess 58,000 of our soldiers (and 2 million Vietnamese) might be alive today.

We killed these men because we didn’t have the facts. 58,000 Americans plus 2 million Vietnamese. Go tell these parents why they died. Tell them that Cheney wanted WAR.