Pentagon Papers leaker decries Iraq war
About 100 people came to see anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg speak at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco on March 30 as he condemned the war in Iraq as a “supreme war crime” and warned about the dangers of a future war in Iran.
In 1971 Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a classified study of U.S. policy in Vietnam, to The New York Times and other major American media sources. Ellsberg was a consultant to the Defense Department at the time, risking possible life imprisonment because he felt that the classified information was of great importance to the American public.
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Ellsberg’s talk was a celebration of the 10th year anniversary of the War and Law League (WALL), a non-profit San Francisco-based organization working to ensure that the U.S. government follows the Constitution, treaties, and international laws in times of war and peace.
Ellsberg condemned Bush and Cheney as war criminals and “domestic enemies of the constitution,” an accusation that brought the entire crowd of people—a vast majority of whom were from the Vietnam War era—to a loud standing applause. He explained that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal, clearly violating the UN charter. “It was a war of aggression without approval from the U.N. security council,” he said......
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