Various War Quotes

[abso]

I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~Rep. Wally Herger

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race...Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never.
~Rev. William Sloane Coffin

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~Richard Cobden

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
~Robert F. Kennedy

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
~Robert Higgs

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
~Robert Higgs

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~Robin Cook

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~Ronald Reagan

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul

War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
~Samuel B. Pettengill

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
~Senator Barbara Boxer

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright

[darin]

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
Dennis Miller

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
Tony Blair

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
David Hackworth

The Prophet Muhammad said: "Religion is very easy, and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists..." [Bukhari:V1N38]

[jimnyc]

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
~Senator Barbara Boxer

Do you even understand what you quote and from whom? You just bolded and quoted from perhaps the biggest nitwit in US politics. You tell us every time we quote stuff from Muslims around the world that we know not what we are talking about, these people aren't "true" muslims and that we shouldn't speak of things we don't know about. Yet you have no problem trying to talk down about Americans and/or those that support blowing the shit out of your terrorist brethren.


The Prophet Muhammad said: "Religion is very easy, and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists..." [Bukhari:V1N38]

I see you like to quote nitwits too, and a pedophile. :laugh2:

[namvet]

I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~Rep. Wally Herger

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race...Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never.
~Rev. William Sloane Coffin

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~Richard Cobden

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
~Robert F. Kennedy

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
~Robert Higgs

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
~Robert Higgs

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~Robin Cook

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~Ronald Reagan

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul

War--after all, what is it that the people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
~Samuel B. Pettengill

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
~Senator Barbara Boxer

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright

I hate it when they say "allah be praised"
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