Tell me who is really dangerous

This past Sunday, just as the big WikiLeaks.org story was breaking, I happened to be watching a great movie called The Most Dangerous Man In America. In case you haven't seen it, it's about a man named Daniel Ellsberg who, beginning in the 60's, works for think tank organization the Rand Corporation (still around!) in support of the US government's efforts in the Vietnam War. Simply put, through a series of events, his viewpoint switches from one of hawk to one of dove. With a top secret report in his possession called "The Pentagon Papers," which reveals a much more realistic history of the war than the one sold the US people, he attempts to gain the attention of the Congress with it, and failing that, goes first to the NY Times, and then a series of other national and respected US newspapers. The report is eventually published, and helps bring about an end to the war a few years later. It also unknowingly begins the unraveling of the Nixon administration pre-Watergate. It's a fascinating story, and a really well made film - I highly recommend it. It's the sort of thing that Oliver Stone would base a movie on.

Anyway, so this WikiLeaks story breaks, and I just thought to myself what a coincidence! How little things have changed...we were fucked then, and we're fucked now. Just as the country was lied to about the origins of the US involvement in Vietnam, and our reasons for being there, the whole current situation is whitewashed. The stats are juked. Lyndon B. Johnson says near the beginning of The Most Dangerous Man..., "We are going to win." Win what? There is nothing to win except contracts for huge weapon making companies. Welcome to the endless war cycle. War is peace, etc, etc. Yes we can, my ass.