A historian I know just made this video and posted it on YouTube. It is very powerful and should be disseminated as widely as possible, especially now while Congress debates the way forward for Iraq.
Now it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam; that we have been detrimental to the life of the Vietnamese people. The situation is one in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways. In order to atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war, and set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam....