war is bad
people die
even people who can punctuate
realy
you know that sick feeling you get in your stomach when something really bad happens?
Thats what war feels like all the time
I guess
I have never been to war
neither have you
In war as i understand it
people die
people sitting next to you
one minute they are Joe, or Bill or Mary
next minute
they are a hunk of meat
that won't come back to be Joe no matter what you do
You know how it felt that time your pet died?
yeah
like that
sort of
war
from where we sit, a political problem
sit in an unarmored humvee
In a nation of 300 million, 3000 dead
big deal
punctuation baby!
so inconvenient
not to have it
hurts my eyes
confuses me
dammit
war
us
no
not YOU
us
war
Ponies
ouch
war
make it easy please i'm busy
and important
especially today
cause ya know the punctuation thing
yeah
important
me
no
not YOU
nope
never
war
we resolve!
sorta....maybe
non
binding
if its ok
the economy is good!
2008!
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http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://bushclock.lose.com/
2008!
713 days!
655,000
= ?
i suck at math
and punctuation
oops
i'll be quiet now
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always d
goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
War is the continuation of politics by other means
"Let someone else get killed!" "Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?" "Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"
"Englishmen are dying for England, American's are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can all be worth dying for?" "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," "answered the old man, "is certainly worth living for."
Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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not ME
not YOU
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What becomes of, and what does it mean to to me, humanity, beneficence, modesty, temperance, mildness, wisdom, and piety, when half a pound of lead shot from a hundred paces shatters my body, and I die at the age of twenty in unspeakable agony, amidst five or six thousand dying men, while my eyes opening for the last time see the town in which I was born destroyed by fire and sword, and the last sounds I hear are the cries of women and children expiring under the ruins, all for the pretended interests of a man I do not know?
~Voltaire
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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