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• My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

  Bob Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  Bob Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Information, War

• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Iraq

• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq – a war more than a year away.

  Bob Graham

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  Tags in War

• The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

  Bob Graham

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  Tags in War

• All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Time, War

• In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Ourselves

• It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed ‘the integral accident’ that is the continuation of politics by other means.

  Paul Virilio

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in War, Mean

• War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

  Paul Virilio

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  Tags in War, University

• It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

  Fred Woodworth

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  Tags in War, Wonderfully, Human

• Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Topics in God

  Tags in War

• At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in Idea, War
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  There never was a good war or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Tags in War, Peace

• War is the business of barbarians.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Topics in Business

  Tags in War, Barbarian

• I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  Billy Bragg

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  Tags in War, Songs

• We shouldn’t have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

  Bill Shuster

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  Tags in War, Politicians

• Especially today as we fight the war on terror – against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag – we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

  Bill Shuster

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• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

  Paul Fussell

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  Tags in War, Morality
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  Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

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  Tags in War, Dead

• Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.

  Paul Cellucci

  Topics in Work

  Tags in War