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1970-04-15 Vietnam Moratorium Flyer
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VIETNAM MORATORIUM Wednesday, April 15 On the WAR Six months have now passed since October 15th when millions of not-so-silent Americans took to the streets, the classrooms, the churches, and the supermarkets to voice their dissent from the policies that have kept this country locked for so long in the tragic conflict in Vietnam. Since October the American people have been asked repeatedly to put their faith in a so-called 'plan for peace'--Vietnamization. Meanwhile, the killing and the dying have continued; an oppressive and unrepresentative regime remains entrenched in Saigon; 2.5 million of our tax dollars drain away into the war every hour; the fighting threatens to spread into Laos and Cambodia; and our military leaders begin to call for slowdowns in troop withdrawals! We believe our government must reject the assumption that a political solution of its own choosing can be imposed in Vietnam by military force. Vietnamization is not a plan for ending the war promptly; it is less a plan for peace than a plan for prolonging the war in a vain quest for 'victory.' On MILITARY SPENDING The April Moratorium is calling also for public protest of the distortions in priorities which permit almost one-half of our annual national budget to be for military purposes, while millions of people at home and abroad go without adequate good, housing, education, and health care; while cities decay and the environment deteriorates! We reject the arguments that our country must start work now on a wide range of fantastically-expensive new weapon systems, and that even an end to the war would see little or no decrease in military spending. We believe these arguments are based on an exaggerated reading of Soviet and Chinese threats, and on the mistaken assumption tht security demands massive U.S. military superiority rather than arms restraint, both self-imposed and negotiated.
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VIETNAM MORATORIUM Wednesday, April 15 On the WAR Six months have now passed since October 15th when millions of not-so-silent Americans took to the streets, the classrooms, the churches, and the supermarkets to voice their dissent from the policies that have kept this country locked for so long in the tragic conflict in Vietnam. Since October the American people have been asked repeatedly to put their faith in a so-called 'plan for peace'--Vietnamization. Meanwhile, the killing and the dying have continued; an oppressive and unrepresentative regime remains entrenched in Saigon; 2.5 million of our tax dollars drain away into the war every hour; the fighting threatens to spread into Laos and Cambodia; and our military leaders begin to call for slowdowns in troop withdrawals! We believe our government must reject the assumption that a political solution of its own choosing can be imposed in Vietnam by military force. Vietnamization is not a plan for ending the war promptly; it is less a plan for peace than a plan for prolonging the war in a vain quest for 'victory.' On MILITARY SPENDING The April Moratorium is calling also for public protest of the distortions in priorities which permit almost one-half of our annual national budget to be for military purposes, while millions of people at home and abroad go without adequate good, housing, education, and health care; while cities decay and the environment deteriorates! We reject the arguments that our country must start work now on a wide range of fantastically-expensive new weapon systems, and that even an end to the war would see little or no decrease in military spending. We believe these arguments are based on an exaggerated reading of Soviet and Chinese threats, and on the mistaken assumption tht security demands massive U.S. military superiority rather than arms restraint, both self-imposed and negotiated.
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