Pentagon Papers (corrected)

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/282-98/6259-why-the-pentagon-papers-matter-now Why the Pentagon Papers Matter Now By Daniel Ellsberg, Reader Supported News 13 June [2011] ***** [EXCERPT] ***** While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth. . . . In other words, today's declassification of the whole study comes 36 to 40 years overdue. Yet, unfortunately, it happens to be peculiarly timely that this study gets attention and goes online just now. That's because we're mired again in wars - especially in Afghanistan - remarkably similar to the 30-year conflict in Vietnam, and we don't have comparable documentation and insider analysis to enlighten us on how we got here and where it's likely to go. What we need released this month are the Pentagon Papers of Iraq and Afghanistan (and Pakistan, Yemen and Libya). We're not likely to get them; they probably don't yet exist, at least in the useful form of the earlier ones. But the original studies on Vietnam are a surprisingly not-bad substitute, definitely worth learning from. . . . To motivate voters and Congress to extricate us from these presidential wars, we need the Pentagon Papers of the Middle East wars right now. Not 40 years in the future. Not after even two or three more years of further commitment to stalemated and unjustifiable wars. . . . Very, very few of those who do have [access to top secret, high-level recommendations, estimates and decisions] are willing to risk their clearances and careers - and the growing possibility (under President Obama) of prosecution - by documenting to Congress and the public even[,] policies that they personally believe are disastrous and wrongly kept secret and lied about. ... I've long regretted that it didn't even occur to me, in August 1964, to release the documents in my Pentagon safe giving the lie to claims of an "unequivocal, unprovoked" (unreal) attack on our destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf: precursors of the "evidence beyond any doubt" of nonexistent WMDs in Iraq, which manipulated Congress, once again, to pass the exact counterpart of the Tonkin Gulf resolution. Senator Morse - one of the two senators who had voted against that unconstitutional, undated blank cheque for presidential war in 1964 - told me that if I had provided him with that evidence at the time (instead of 1969, when I finally provided it to the senate foreign relations committee, on which he had served): "The Tonkin Gulf resolution would never have gotten out of committee; and if it had been brought to the floor, it would have been voted down." That's a heavy burden for me to bear: especially when I reflect that, by September, I had a drawer-full of the top secret documents (again, regrettably, not published until 1971) proving the fraudulence of Johnson's promises of "no wider war" in his election campaign, and his actual determination to escalate a war that he privately and realistically regarded as unwinnable. Had I or one of the scores of other officials who had the same high-level information acted then on our oath of office - which was not an oath to obey the president, nor to keep the secret that he was violating his own sworn obligations, but solely an oath "to support and defend the constitution of the United States" - that terrible war might well have been averted altogether. But to hope to have that effect, we would have needed to disclose the documents when they were current, before the escalation - not five or seven, or even two, years after the fateful commitments had been made. A lesson to be drawn from reading the Pentagon Papers, knowing all that followed or has come out in the years since, is this. To those in the Pentagon, state department, the White House, CIA (and their counterparts in Britain and other [NATO] countries) who have similar access to mine then and foreknowledge of disastrous escalations in our wars in the Middle East, I would say: Don't make my mistake. Don't do what I did. Don't wait until a new war has started in Iran, until more bombs have fallen in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, Libya, Iraq or Yemen. Don't wait until thousands more have died, before you go to the press and to Congress to tell the truth with documents that reveal lies or crimes or internal projections of costs and dangers. Don't wait 40 years for it to be declassified, or seven years as I did for you or someone else to leak it. The personal risks are great. But a war's worth of lives might be saved. ===================================================================== Each Pentagon Papers file is a .pdf file. File sizes in MEBIBYTES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte) are shown at the right. (The sizes of some of the smaller files are truncated, not rounded.) Index 3.7 MiB [Part I] Vietnam and the U.S., 1940-1950 115.5 MiB [Part II] U.S. Involvement in the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-1954 44.0 MiB [Part III] The Geneva Accords 63.0 MiB [Part IV. A. 1.] Evolution of the War. NATO and SEATO: A Comparison 25.1 MiB [Part IV. A. 2.] Evolution of the War. Aid for France in Indochina, 1950-54 16.8 MiB [Part IV. A. 3.] Evolution of the War. U.S. and France's Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1954-56 33.5 MiB [Part IV. A. 4.] Evolution of the War. U.S. Training of Vietnamese National Army, 1954-59 50.9 MiB [Part IV. A. 5.] Evolution of the War. Origins of the Insurgency 177.3 MiB [Part IV. B. 1.] Evolution of the War. Counterinsurgency: The Kennedy Commitments and Programs, 1961 86.7 MiB [Part IV. B. 2.] Evolution of the War. Counterinsurgency: Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961-63 25.7 MiB [Part IV. B. 3.] Evolution of the War. Counterinsurgency: The Advisory Build-up, 1961-67 70.5 MiB [Part IV. B. 4.] Evolution of the War. Counterinsurgency: Phased Withdrawal of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, 1962-64 27.9 MiB [Part IV. B. 5.] Evolution of the War. Counterinsurgency: The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-Nov. 1963 53.0 MiB [Part IV. C. 1.] Evolution of the War. U.S. Programs in South Vietnam, November 1963-April 1965: NASM 273 -- NSAM 288 -- Honolulu 69.6 MiB [Part IV. C. 2. a.] Evolution of the War. Military Pressures Against NVN. February - June 1964 36.9 MiB [Part IV. C. 2. b.] Evolution of the War. Military Pressures Against NVN. July - October 1964 45.8 MiB [Part IV. C. 2. c.] Evolution of the War. Military Pressures Against NVN. November - December 1964 54.4 MiB [Part IV. C. 3.] Evolution of the War. ROLLING THUNDER Program Begins: January - June 1965 88.5 MiB [Part IV. C. 4.] Evolution of the War. Marine Combat Units Go to DaNang, March 1965 21.3 MiB [Part IV. C. 5.] Evolution of the War. Phase I in the Build-up of U.S. Forces: March - July 1965 65.5 MiB [Part IV. C. 6. a.] Evolution of the War. U.S. Ground Strategy and Force Deployments: 1965 - 1967. Volume I: Phase II, Program 3, Program 4 68.9 MiB [Part IV. C. 6. b.] Evolution of the War. U.S. Ground Strategy and Force Deployments: 1965 - 1967. Volume II: Program 5 111.0 MiB [Part IV. C. 6. c.] Evolution of the War. U.S. Ground Strategy and Force Deployments: 1965 - 1967. Volume III: Program 6 44.8 MiB [Part IV. C. 7. a.] Evolution of the War. Air War in the North: 1965 - 1968. Volume I 101.6 MiB [Part IV. C. 7. b.] Evolution of the War. Air War in the North: 1965 - 1968. Volume II 96.7 MiB [Part IV. C. 8.] Evolution of the War. Re-emphasis on Pacification: 1965-1967 509.2 MiB [Part IV. C. 9. a.] Evolution of the War. U.S.-GVN Relations. Volume 1: December 1963 - June 1965 310.0 MiB [Part IV. C. 9. b.] Evolution of the War. U.S.-GVN Relations. Volume 2: July 1965 - December 1967 295.2 MiB [Part IV. C. 10.] Evolution of the War. Statistical Survey of the War, North and South: 1965 - 1967 98.6 MiB [Part V. A.] Justification of the War. Public Statements. Volume I: A--The Truman Administration 36.8 MiB [Part V. A.] Justification of the War. Public Statements. Volume I: B--The Eisenhower Administration 181.8 MiB [Part V. A.] Justification of the War. Public Statements. Volume I: C--The Kennedy Administration 157.1 MiB [Part V. A.] Justification of the War. Public Statements. Volume II: D--The Johnson Administration 473.1 MiB [Part V. B. 1.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Roosevelt Administration 295.1 MiB [Part V. B. 2. a.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Truman Administration. Volume I: 1945 - 1949 115.9 MiB [Part V. B. 2. b.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Truman Administration. Volume II: 1950 -1952 132.1 MiB [Part V. B. 3. a.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Eisenhower Administration. Volume I: 1953 128.2 MiB [Part V. B. 3. b.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Eisenhower Administration. Volume II: 1954 - Geneva 212.8 MiB [Part V. B. 3. c.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Eisenhower Administration. Volume III: Geneva Accords - 15 March 1956 182.0 MiB [Part V. B. 3. d.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Eisenhower Administration. Volume IV: 1956 French Withdrawal - 1960 149.0 MiB [Part V. B. 4.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Kennedy Administration. Book I 186.9 MiB [Part V. B. 4.] Justification of the War. Internal Documents. The Kennedy Administration. Book II 98.3 MiB [Part VI. A.] Settlement of the Conflict. Negotiations, 1965-67: The Public Record 40.0 MiB [Part VI. B.] Settlement of the Conflict. Negotiations, 1965-67: Announced Position Statements 134.3 MiB [Part VI. C. 1.] Settlement of the Conflict. Histories of Contacts. 1965-1966 86.8 MiB [Part VI. C. 2.] Settlement of the Conflict. Histories of Contacts. Polish Track 68.1 MiB [Part VI. C. 3.] Settlement of the Conflict. Histories of Contacts. Moscow-London Track 70.8 MiB [Part VI. C. 4.] Settlement of the Conflict. Histories of Contacts. 1967-1968 133.5 MiB ===== 5.42 GiB (5545.2 MiB)

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rubicon7 (2011-06-18)

Mebibyte, mebbe not. Thanks.

wontpayforit (2011-06-18)

If we do not head history, we're bound to repeat the same mistakes again.
Actually not WE but THEM, the powers that be.
Those pathetic fear mongering war fairing idiots that ponder up these schemes and send young men and women to die on foreign soil.

 Bluetack (2011-06-18)

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 Bluetack (2011-06-19)

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It's 1.34 GiB (1442490549 Bytes), so people might prefer it over these originals.
Do you want to start a short filename version of that one too, asc11? I'll help.

 Bluetack (2011-06-28)

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