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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:20 PM
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Our military is run by madmen.

Curtis Lemay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:24 PM
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1. Too much money, too much power and influence on our gov
Our military budget is as high as all other western nations combined. Thats why you have Hadithas and Iraq invasions. Gotta keep an enemy if youre expecting to keep that budget where it is.

Theres no cuts in "wartime"
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:39 PM
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2. "Theres no cuts in wartime"
Except for human life.
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reichstag911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:26 PM
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3. Actually,...
...I've read in a few places that it now exceeds the rest of the world combined.
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