The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern
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More Quotes By George McGovern
  1. I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

  2. It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

  3. When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

  4. I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

  5. The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

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