Reply #58: In his most powerful speech,

[H2O Man]

Rev. King said, "This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words: 'Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the heart of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism'." (A Time to Break Silence; April 4, 1967)

I think that Rep. Kucinich recognizes this, and is attempting to remind our citizens of the implications.