We Need The Courage To Face The

There Are Two Types Of Courage Involved With What I Did. When It Comes To Picking Up A Rifle, Millions Of People Are Capable Of Doing That, As We See In Iraq Or Vietnam. But When It Comes To Risking Their Careers, Or Risking Being Invited To Lunch By The Establishment, It Turns Out That's Remarkably Rare.

The Courage We Need Is Not The Fortitude To Be Obedient In The Service Of An Unjust War, To Help Conceal Lies, To Do Our Job For A Boss Who Has Usurped Power And Is Acting As An Outlaw Government. It Is The Courage At Last To Face Honestly The Truth And Reality Of What We Are Doing In The World And Act Responsibly To Change It.

I Felt That As An American Citizen, As A Responsible Citizen, I Could No Longer Cooperate In Concealing This Information From The American Public. I Did This Clearly At My Own Jeopardy And I Am Prepared To Answer To All The Consequences Of This Decision.

If There's Another 9/11 Or A Major War In The Middle-east Involving A U.s. Attack On Iran, I Have No Doubt That There Will Be, The Day After Or Within Days An Equivalent Of A Reichstag Fire Decree That Will Involve Massive Detentions In This Country.

We Were Young, We Were Foolish, We Were Arrogant, But We Were Right.