We Who Dared to Say No to War | Thomas E. Woods. Jr.

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom's anthology (edited with Murray Polner), 'We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.'

Recorded in Auburn, Alabama, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 21 July 2010.

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[IslandersMets10]

It is beacuase the american colonies won there independence from britan that we are free...every other war does not hold true to that fact. Maybe the war of 1812..but the civil war centralized power, the indian wars expanded power, ww1, ww2....and it just grows and grows. It's time for the states to secede and honor our foundng fathers

[miazagora]

As the aunt of a soldier, I can say I'm anti-war.

[shadowbankers]

@IslandersMets10 every war is used to strip away freedoms...war on drugs, poverty, terrorism, etc.

[patriotofliberty1776]

I'm anti-war. War is the enemy of liberty and the people of the country that launches war is itself the victim as much as the enemy they aim to vanquish. no one wins at war. As Joshua said in WarGames, "Greetings Professor Faulken.A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

[fatima01917]

The book, Toward Soviet America, can be read online. Communists have infiltrated for years into the government and even wrote books about it such as "Man without a face" by the late Markus Wolf who hated Senator Joe McCarthy and that's in the book too.

[ejwoodall]

Another reformed NeoCon that agrees with Tom here. My reform took place after Iraq II and seeing the police state based on 9/11. Soon 9/11 falls apart and you realize we are living a lie. The US is dominated by Zionists. The US is the evil empire dragging the word into WW III over the Edomites occupying Palestine claiming to be Israelites or the "chosen ones. God scorned the Edomites as he does Israel today.

[TravellerFellow]

@uk6strings on the Road to Basra, US jets did slow strafing runs, dropping napalm, white phosphorous, high explosive bombs on basically a huge, "Mother of All Traffic Jams", of Iraqi soldiers LEAVING Kuwait. to quote one pilot Air HERO of that operation, "it WAS shooting fish in a barrel". MANY Air Force Crosses, and Air Medals were issued subsequent to that operation. oh well. ha ha ha

[musicandchips]

@uk6strings It was the first days of the first Iraq war, after the Iraqi army was chased out of Kuwait and annihalated as they retreated back towards Baghdad.

[uk6strings]

Woods' story is similar to my own. I was a Neocon myself, untill I began to open my eyes to exactly what I was supporting - Woods is instrumental in changing my mind.

Some help though, for my curiosity: can anyone tell me the specific incident in the Persian Gulf War that Woods refers to, in which the US was bombing thousands of Iraqi soldiers?

[RyanR3volution]

Wow, both of these guys were such gentlemen.

[HelgeBuk]

@oneirishpoet Don't forget the poor are getting richer as well. Just saying.

[KOmaSHOOTER]

I don't support killing