Senator Wayne Morse says no to Vietnam 1964

[RamsesReturns]

A time when democrats were more republican than republicans today.

[MenwithHill]

@RamsesReturns Things twisted very much. Democrats were a very southern party until the 1970's. They were the party of the Segregationist and the Racist, the "Dixiecrats". But things have changed and position are now on the opposite.

[nakedfrenzy6241]

Excellent film

I like it

[MeIsSully]

And he was right!

[kakompo]

History is on your side Senator Morse and history has proven you right. . rest in peace. You were an upright man!

[kreendurron]

Ron Paul

[045781]

Why is this video no longer working, anyone know why?

[cocoramone4]

i heard he did a speach uninterupted for twenty two hours

[tripfunkmonster]

Wayne Morse was a hero during the V. Nam War by standing up for what was right. He didn't want Americans to die needlessly in an unnecessary war. He was a republican in the 1940s when they had morals. The democrats still had dixiecrats back then and were fighting against civil rights. He left the republicans when the Eisenhower/Dulles people took over the White House. He was an independent, then joined the democrats. He was defeated by Bob Packwood, a future rapist, in the 1968 election.

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster "Wayne Morse was" one of those (D)'s that JFK (Liberal Cold Warrior) hated. JFK preferred men like Nixon over most if not all the spineless (D)'s in his own party. JFK after defeating Nixon in 1960, vacationed in Key Biscaine Flouride AND OFFERED NIXON A HIGH POSITION IN HIS CABINET (JFK desperately needed a experienced Nixon) who graciously declined, he wanted JFK to roast on the spigget & he did not have to wait for long, JFK's 1st attempt at world leadership ended w/the BoP

[tripfunkmonster]

@JgarfbiHoover: What's your point?

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster "What's your point?"

* The point being the American mobocracy hired the wrong hitman in 1960 we should of elected Nixon to fight the war in VN (start bombing early w/small nukes too) & in 1968 elected JFK as a peace time president after the war was won

* LBJ in order to win in VN in JFK's memory started Op Rolling Thunder (Blunder) which prioritised outhouses & coal piles first ascending to strategic targets last in graduated escalation. McCain was apalled by this stupidity

[tripfunkmonster]

@JgarfbiHoover: I disagree. I believe we never should have fought the Vietnam War. It served no positive purpose. It was a CIA/Wall St./war industry intervention into a civil war. Corporations made a lot of money on the hard work and blood of Americans (& Vietnamese). The DOD backed drug dealers who were willing to fight against socialists & nationalists. It also served the purpose of filling our cities with hard drugs which ruined millions of lives and sedated the population into apathy.

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster P1 "It served no positive purpose" Probably true for us Americans safe here but for SE Asia?

~ It stopped the Communist advance into country's all over that region from Thailand to Australia

~ It spurred us to new technological heights (Stealth Jets, Pav-tac Bombing, Cruise Missiles, ect)

~ It reaffimed JFK's Cold War stance that the USA was, is & will be for the forseeable future the world's preminent insurance against all the ism's in the world (Facism, Communism, etc) 

[cockyhemi]

@JgarfbiHoover What about Capitalism?  Isn't that an ism? Lol!

[JgarfbiHoover]

@tripfunkmonster P2 If u disagree w/the above take into consideration these counter-intuative truism's

~ The only price freedom will accept is blood. It will accept no other form of payment

~ Aggression unchecked invites further aggression then all hell breaks out

~ Thoughts that make us feel that we know something intuitively are easy to experience but notoriously difficult explaining (Ex.Religion: There are things known, unknown, will never be known, for they're meant for God only to know)

[whoo689]

Wayne Morse is one of the few last true Republicans and/or 'conservatives' back then.

[kidonlyle]

@whoo689 He wasn't a Republcan then and he was never a conservative.

[JimsBB123]

"But one thing I do know, and that is we're going to be BOGGED down in Southeast Asia for years to come if we follow this course of action, and we're gonna kill thousands of Americans boys until FINALLY, let me say, the American people are gonna say what the French people finally said: They've had enough." Senator Wayne Morse 1964. Visionary man.

[assais]

and we see it happening over and over again in this disgusting country

[JgarfbiHoover]

@assais P1 "we see it happening over & over again in this disgusting country" No backbone to fight against enemys who are willing to use puppets like u against their own country by waiting it out. You hillbillys never learned that military aggression unchecked invites more aggression. Joe Sr. (US Ambassador to UK) found this out after the King of UK said he had a yellow streak down his back by backing N. Chamberlain's appeasement policy w/Hitler. FDR had enough and recalled him in disgrace

[beatles1000]

Too bad we did not listen to Morse and George Ball.

[TheJoester1992]

Geeze. Stop dissing on Byrd. Robert Byrd is the antithesis of these fearmongering neocons.

[cupwithhandles]

WOW - Thanks so much for posting this

[IBMeddling]

obviously he was wrong. Whenever you vote with the minority your wrong. (that was a joke)

[KennBurch]

Say what?

[pwgpwg3]

mr. morse is a true american hero...

[km2711]

Robert Byrd a hero?

WOW--the left is really grabbing at straws..

Of course, he now gets a pass--saying he knows a lot of white "N _ _ _ _ _ S".., etc., etc.

He's a disgrace to the Senate Chamber..

[NsOakland6]

He called it just like Ron Paul.

[sadunkal]

Humanity is pathetic...

But there's always room for improvement!

[mphanrahan]

Every generation forgets. Wayne Morse was a man of foresight and common sense.

[mrperez666]

It's like Wayne Morse looked up the outcome of the Vietnam War before it even took place. Everything he said is 100% then, and even more so today. People like him and Robert Byrd are heroes.

[AliOllieWoodson]

especially Byrd as former KKK member yeah?

[vaXzine]

It's true Byrd was in the kkk.

[avedron]

Tragic how history repeats itself.

[larma7]

It's because history books don't mention the true heroes like Wayne Morose and Mike Gravel.

[wsl2107]

Marilyn Young's book "The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990" mentions Senator Morse in detail. A great history of Vietnam.

[KennBurch]

Ernest Gruening, not Gravel. It was GRUENING who joined Morse in voting "no" on the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. This vote cost BOTH of them their Senate seats. Mike Gravel was recruited to run against Gruening in the Alaska Democratic Senate primary in '68 as a pro-war candidate.

Gravel didn't turn into a dove until later, when there was no real risk involved.

[JgarfbiHoover]

@assais P2 The CONspiracy in JFK's death (Criminal Hoaxing Community) said for years TUM The Umbrella Man in the Z-Film had a flechette firing device paralysing JFK for the head shot. Louis Wit came forward in 78 (HSCA) & said he went to DP to heckle JFK w/a N. Chamberlain trademark

black umbrella because JFK in his opinion was appeasing the Communist. JFK had to raise $52M to get back the Bay of Pigs Invasion survivors that JFK hoped Castro would murder as he had done after the revolution

[hyperseauton]

@avedron

Morse was one of two members of Congress opposing Johnson, and he got it right.

Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress opposing Bush, and she got it right.

[efrem1]

@hyperseauton Don't forget Ron Paul.