Ma ka Iune 3, Ua lawe ʻo CNN i kahi "hoʻopaʻapaʻa" mawaena o na mea ewalu
of ka poʻe manaʻolana i kēia manawa e lanakila i ke koho ʻana o ka
ʻO ka ʻaoʻao Demokarata e holo no ka pelekikena i ka makahiki 2008.
Mai ka hema a i ka ʻākau ma ke kahua ma ke Kulanui ʻo Saint Anselm
ma New Hampshire, ʻo lākou: ʻO Alaska Sen.
Mike Gravel, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, mua
North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, New York Sen.
ʻO Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ilinoi Sen. Barack Obama,
ʻO New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, a me Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
Now. E noʻonoʻo i kahi ʻōpio ʻO Daniel Ellsberg - e like me ka hoʻopiʻi ʻana i nā tausani o nā ʻaoʻao o nā kope o ka "huna huna" US imperial - e hoʻolālā ana i nā palapala no nā kaua a me nā hoʻokahuli hou loa - me ka hoʻouka ʻana o ke aupuni i kona heluna kanaka ma ka inoa ʻo "homeland security" - mai ka Pentagon a i ʻole kekahi hui like ʻole o ke Aupuni ʻAmelika i kēia lā, a e hoʻokokoke aku ana i kēlā me kēia o nā ʻewalu o ka ʻaoʻao Demokarata e paio pelekikena i komo i ka papahana TV ʻo Iune 3.
Ma loko o kēia mau ʻewalu, ʻehia o lākou i kou manaʻo e hoʻopaʻa i kona ʻāʻī, a kōkua i ka ʻōpio ʻo Ellsberg e hoʻokomo i nā palapala i loko o ke aupuni lehulehu?
ʻO kaʻu manaʻo ponoʻī, ʻo ka hapa nui, ʻelua o lākou. (Akā, ʻaʻole au e hoʻopilikia i ke noi ʻana i ka hōʻike lima.)
A ʻaʻole hoʻi e kū i kahi manawa e loaʻa ai ke koho ʻana o kāna ʻaoʻao e pani no ia a holo i ka pelekikena.
"Mai Nīnau iā Hillary: ʻAʻole Loaʻa iā ia," Mike Gravel, Huffington Post, Iune 5, 2007
Nā Pepa Pentagon, Gravel Edition, Volume 1, Mokuna I, "Background to the Crisis, 1940-50" (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971). (E nānā pū: Nā palapala e pili ana i nā kulekele ʻē aʻe o ʻAmelika - Vietnam, Ke Kulanui ʻo Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts.)
David Peterson
ʻo Chicago, USA
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