"War sucks big time" "more body bags & amputees will be coming home"

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Q U O T E S

"We have been hit 18 of the last 19 days. I feel like I am at Da Nang or Phu Bai. It just sucks. Luckily, 'only' about 45 people have been hurt. Yeah, a lot, but considering how many they lob in here, that is not too bad.... We are under siege out here, without supplies, without a mission and we can only roll the dice so many times and not get our (expletive) shot. More and more body bags and amputees will be coming home."

-- 2nd Lt. Brett Hunt, with the Army's 11th Signal Brigade north of Baghdad, in a letter to his parents, July 22



"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory after the war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the beleaguered American taxpayer would not have been happy to take on."

-- Norman Schwarzkopf on the first Gulf War, 1993



"We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability."

-- George H.W. Bush on the first Gulf War, 1998



"I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."

--Colin Powell at a rehearsal for his speech on Iraq's WMDs to the UN Security Council, according to US News and World Report, June 2, 2003



"Let me tell you one thing first. War sucks big time. Don’t let yourself ever be talked into having one waged in the name of your freedom. Somehow when the bombs start dropping or you hear the sound of machine guns at the end of your street you don’t think about your 'imminent liberation' anymore."

--"Salam Pax," the Bagdad blogger, May 7, 2003



"I never really liked those two arrogant bastards, those two towers. On the other hand, I'm not that fond of my nose, but I really don't want someone ramming a plane into it."

--Art Spiegelman, the Art Newspaper, May 2003

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Natiomal Guard reservists- "ONE WEEKEND A MONTH MY ASS" -



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[Jester_11218]

1. Shhhh...laet's talk about Arnold!

You are not supposed to talk about this stuff. We should be more concerned about Arnold the candidate and Laci Peterson!

This is trivial! (wink wink)