“Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending fifty thousand young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood.” Senators averted their eyes or stared at their desks or drew their faces taut with fury; this was not senatorial decorum. “Every senator here is partly responsible for that human wreckage at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and all across our land—young men without legs, or arms, or genitals, or faces, or hopes…. “Do not talk about bugging out, or national honor, or courage. “It does not take any courage at all for a congressman, or senator, or a
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