"Are the servicemen serving their country or are they serving the government; you know, that same government that is lying to us and stealing our money to fund things we object to: socialized health care, abortion, bail-outs, etc."
Bearded Spock
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
Benjamin Franklin
War Never Solved Anything
Except Slavery, Oppression, Genocide,
Communism, Fascism, Nazism
......Now for Terrorism
(bumpersticker of the day:)
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A case can be made that war CAUSED the holocaust. Hitler didn't implement the Final Solution until after the war started. For a more in-depth analysis, read Hitler, Churchill and the Unnceccesary War by Pat Buchanan.
ReplyDeleteWar CAUSES oppression. Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, jailed northern Newspaper editors who opposed the war, imposed martial law, even tried to arrest a Supreme Court Justice. Read Lincoln Unmasked, by Thomas DiLorenzo.
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
ReplyDeleteMargaret Thatcher