"This chamber reeks of blood." Who in this Congress will make a speech like McGovern’s?

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During Senate floor debate in September 1970, Sen. George McGovern assailed his colleagues for not supporting an amendment that he had co-sponsored with Senator Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) calling for a complete withdrawal of troops from Vietnam:

"Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave . . .This chamber reeks of blood. ...it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed." He blamed his colleagues for having contributed to "that human wreckage all across our land — young men without legs or arms or genitals or faces — or hopes."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902748,00.html

(For those who don't know, Gary Hart was McGovern's campaign manager in '72.)

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:kick: HART 2008! :kick:

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1. kick for the DUer who lost a brother today in Iraq. n/t

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2. double post n/t