Saturday, May 6, 1972
Spiro Hits Critics Of Viet War
CHARLESTON, S.C. (UPI) --Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Wednesday said persons who criticize the morality of the Vietnam War fail to recognize the immorality that would have resulted from America's refusal to aid the South Vietnamese people."Our decision to act in Vietnam was a difficult, selfless, courageous and entirely moral act." Agnew told a crowd of 4,000 at the dedication of a student center at Baptist College near here.Referring to those who have raised objections to the U.S. role in Vietnam, Agnew said "we would do well not to automatically accept the easy clichés and slogans turned out by political propagandist and disseminated by the mesmerized moguls of the media."Agnew said the talk of an immoral war in Vietnam implies that there are moral wars and that there are criteria by which the two can be differentiated."Spiro Hits Critics of Viet War", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Saturday, May 6, 1972 and reprinted form European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.