Old play from the old Left

I was reading Horowitz's Radical Son, an excellent tome and was reminded of this recent statement from a prominent Democrat decrying the war in Iraq:

You know what kind of war we are fighting against the people of Iraq. It is barbaric. It is an aggressive war of conquest that all of us hate and few of us understand. We are the cannon fodder. We are the ones they deceive into killing Iraqis, attacking, occupying, using gas a chemicals, bombing their schools and hospitals. All this horror to protect the empire of our rich men. Brass hats and money boys at home have made us their victims. These new Hitlers use us to carry out every war crime in the book.

Actually, I'm fibbing here. The quote is from Radical Son made by Ralph Shulman, the manipulative force behind the ailing Bertrand Russell, spoken to US troops over Radio Hanoi in February 1966:

I speak to you today from Hanoi as one American to another. Brothers, you know what kind of war we are fighting against the people of Vietnam. It is barbaric. It is an aggressive war of conquest that all of us hate and few of us understand. We are the cannon fodder. We are the ones they deceive into killing Vietnamese, attacking, occupying, using gas a chemicals, bombing their schools and hospitals. All this horror to protect the empire of our rich men. Brass hats and money boys at home have made us their victims. These new Hitlers use us to carry out every war crime in the book.

What is shocking is how relatively easy it is to believe that this might come from some Democratic senator (or former Presidential candidate).